Right now, the 2017 Florida Legislative Session is likely to pass new legislation to help prosecutors get the death penalty back in action. Here is what is happening up in Tallahassee:
Florida Senate SB280
In Florida, SB 280 is proceeding through the Florida Senate having made its way out of its first committee earlier this month
Dylan Roof’s death sentence for the South Carolina shooting which left nine people dead, departs from the national downward trending of death penalty cases.
Before the June 17, 2015 mass shooting, Roof’s only contact with police had been two arrests each occurring in the months immediately before the deadly attack. Following a
The American Bar Association Death Penalty Due Process Review Project has published its report, "Severe Mental Illness and the Death Penalty."
ABA Report To Be Tool For Change
From its Executive Summary (emphasis added):
Despite broader efforts to reform the criminal justice system’s approach to mental illness, individuals
With all the hoopla surrounding the Florida death penalty statute (see our prior posts), some may be wondering what capital defense lawyers in Florida are doing right now. Well, there are those sentencing hearings, right?
Lenamon is Defending a Murder Case in Miami
And there are still murder trials. The prosecutors are still busy
This week was the debut of "Cell 1: Florida’s Death Penalty in Limbo," which is a special production of WLRN News.
Read the story online in six parts.
Here’s a short 3 minute overview:
The jury has made its decision in the case of Dylann Roof, charged with the shooting deaths of nine people attending church in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof has been sentenced to death.
Federal Hate Crime Death Sentence
As the Associated Press reports, this is the first time that an individual has been sentenced to
Right before Christmas (on December 22nd), the Florida Supreme Court issued two opinions that answer the question of vacating the death sentences of Florida Death Row inmates after the SCOTUS ruling that their capital punishment had been decided unconstitutionally (Hurst).
Asay v State and Mosley v State
The two cases are Asay v State of Florida
What happens with the current Florida prosecutions, where the death penalty is being sought by prosecutors?
Here’s a great article using in part the example of the Michael Lamar Woods’ case, where Terence Lenamon acts a defense counsel.
Jury Instructions in Death Penalty Cases
Read all about how things are working in the current legal
News reports are the State of Florida is getting ready to execute more folk, even though SCOTUS and the Supreme Court of Florida pretty much have Florida executions on hold right now indefinitely.
Florida Lethal Injections Executions With Etomidate
The Sun Sentinel and others are reporting that the Florida Department of Corrections paid money to