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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 jury’s January decision to sentence a man to death who was convicted of raping, torturing and murdering a woman in his van on the eve of the 2018 ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Florida since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. The total amounts to 106 people. Of the 106 people executed, 44 have been executed by electrocution and 62 have been executed by lethal injection .
James Liebman, a professor of law at Columbia Law School, stated in 1996 that his study found that when habeas corpus petitions in death penalty cases were traced from conviction to completion of the case, there was "a 40 percent success rate in all capital cases from 1978 to 1995". [161]
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.
A Florida Keys man is accused of beating another man to death following an argument Saturday afternoon. Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to Marathon Community Park in the ...