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By a 5–1 vote, the Florida Supreme Court overturns a whole line of precedent that limited the death penalty to "the most aggravated and the least mitigated of first-degree murders."
The decision sets back Florida& #39;s death penalty jurisprudence by decades. https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/content/download/685153/opinion/sc18-2061.pdf">https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/content/d...
The decision sets back Florida& #39;s death penalty jurisprudence by decades. https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/content/download/685153/opinion/sc18-2061.pdf">https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/content/d...
This decision is a HUGE deal. The Florida Supreme Court has long reviewed death sentences for proportionality. But five conservative justices just decided they didn& #39;t like that rule, so they tossed it out the window. An earthquake in Florida& #39;s criminal justice system.
To see the future of our federal judiciary, just take a look at the Florida Supreme Court. Republicans have now stacked it with a 6–1 conservative majority ... which promptly gave itself the power to overturn decades of precedent. A massive power-grab. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/florida-supreme-court-precedent-conservatives-death-penalty.html">https://slate.com/news-and-...
The Florida Supreme Court& #39;s last remaining moderate, Justice Labarga, dissented. He outlined the conservative majority& #39;s recent assault on precedent, leading up to today& #39;s reversal of a nearly 50-YEAR-OLD decision, with obvious disgust. This is a warning. https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/content/download/685153/opinion/sc18-2061.pdf">https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/content/d...
