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A 12-member jury on Wednesday recommended the death penalty for a Florida Keys man convicted the previous day for the brutal rape, torture and murder of a woman in his van on the eve of the 2018 ...
A Florida Keys judge on Thursday agreed with a ... He’s accused in that case of strangling an elderly man to death, with the help of three friends, after breaking into his house to steal his ...
Florida statute also provides the death penalty for capital drug trafficking and discharging or using a destructive device causing death. A provision for capital sexual battery was found unconstitutional in the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court case Kennedy v. Louisiana. No one is on death row in the United States for drug trafficking.
If Cole is put to death, it will mark the seventh time Florida executed a man since Aug. 8, 2019. Cole will also become the first inmate executed in Florida this year and the 13th in the nation if ...
Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for rape of an adult woman when the victim is not killed.; Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill.
Cortez after his arrest in 2006. On January 22, 2007, Cortez pleaded guilty in a court martial to rape, conspiracy to rape, and four counts of murder as part of a plea deal to avoid a possible death sentence. During his sentencing hearing, his lawyers argued that he was under war-related stress.
Jason Keys, 43, was shot and killed outside the home of his wife's grandparents on Father's Day 2021. The man who shot him was sentenced on Monday.
Pedro Luis Medina (October 5, 1957 – March 25, 1997) was a Cuban refugee who was executed in Florida for the murder of a 52 year old woman in Orlando.The circumstances of his execution elevated objections to the use of electrocution as a means of capital punishment.