Entries tagged with “Barry Davis, Jr.”
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Jan 31, 2020
Florida Prisoner Sentenced to Life After Third Non-Unanimous Death Penalty Verdict
After nearly two decades of capital trials and death-penalty reversals, former Florida death-row prisoner David Snelgrove has been resentenced to life in prison without parole. His three sentencing trials provided a barometer of the impact of the United States Supreme Court and Florida Supreme Court decisions in Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State, and the lengths to which prosecutors were willing to go in attempts to keep unconstitutionally sentenced prisoners on death row. Before his latest…