Entries tagged with “Ernest Porter”

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Nov 02, 2020

Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of October 26, 2020

NEWS (10/​30/​20) — Florida: The Florida Supreme Court has upheld the con­vic­tion and death sen­tence of Jonathan Lawrence in an opin­ion that removed yet anoth­er appel­late safe­guard for the state’s death-row prisoners. In the case, the new far-right major­i­ty of the court end­ed the 50-year-old prac­tice of con­duct­ing an inde­pen­dent pro­por­tion­al­i­ty review of a death sen­tence to deter­mine whether the verdict was…