Death Penalty - States

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

Last week, the Florida Supreme Court released its opinion in Richard Franklin’s case

New Sentencing Hearing for Florida Death Row Inmate Richard Franklin

Their decision?  Franklin should get a new sentencing hearing on his murder conviction of a prison guard. 

Why? There was not complete agreement among the jurors in his initial sentencing.  "

We’ve discussed the new Harvard Law School report before, insofar as it concerns prosecutors (read our post here). 

However, this week’s New York Times Magazine has taken a different view on that new research report and it’s very interesting.

Read the 55-page report from Harvard’s Fair Punishment Project, entitled "Too Broken to

In Florida, things remain in limbo regarding the current (and revised) Florida death penalty statute because the Florida Supreme Court ended its 2016 term without deciding on the pending death penalty challenge.

Florida Death Penalty Statute: Is It Unconstitutional?

Which means that for now, and for months to come, Florida prosecutors as well as Florida capital