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Supreme Court Sets Aside Florida’s Death Penalty Sentencing Procedure

Loaded on Feb. 2, 2016 by Derek Gilna published in Prison Legal News February, 2016, page 22
Filed under: Judicial Misconduct, Judiciary, Death Penalty. Location: Florida.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, has ruled that Florida’s system of allowing juries to make death penalty recommendations that judges may or may not follow is unconstitutional. According to Justice Sonia Sotomayer, the “jury’s recommendation is not enough. The Sixth Amendment requires a jury, not a judge, ...

 

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