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Georgia (1972), essentially ruling the imposition of the death penalty at the same time as a guilty verdict unconstitutional, Florida was the first state to draft a newly written statute on August 12, 1972, [5] and all 96 death row inmates (95 male and 1 female) were commuted to life in prison.
A Florida judge on Tuesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for the random 2019 killings of two Southwest Florida women. Wade Steven Wilson, reportedly tied to a white supremist gang, was ...
On Monday, Gov. DeSantis signed the first death warrant of 2024.This warrant – which comes nine months after the state completed its last execution on Oct. 3, 2023, ending a slew of six ...
June 27, 2024 Richard Norman Rojem Jr. 66 26 40 White Oklahoma [16] 10 July 18, 2024 Keith Edmund Gavin: 64 37 27 Black Alabama [17] 11 August 7, 2024 Arthur Lee Burton: 54 27 Texas [18] 12 August 8, 2024 Taberon Dave Honie: 48 22 26 Native American Utah [19] 13 August 29, 2024 Loran Kenstley Cole: 57 27 30 White Florida [20] 14 September 20, 2024
More than the required 8 out of the 12 jurors recommended the death penalty for Wilson (9 for the murder of Melton and 10 for the murder of Ruiz). [15] Having the power to take or disregard the jury's suggestion, judge Nicholas Thompson imposed two death sentences. [6] Wilson is appealing the decision to the Supreme Court of Florida. [17]
Florida has high level of exonerations from death row
Florida: 29 August 2024 [78] Loran Kenstley Cole: aggravated murder: lethal injection: D Georgia: 20 March 2024 [79] Willie James Pye: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Hawaii: Never used [80] C Idaho: 12 June 2012 [81] Richard Albert Leavitt: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Illinois: 17 March 1999 [82] Andrew Kokoraleis: aggravated ...
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