Arbitrariness
,Intellectual Disability
,Sentencing Alternatives
,Lethal Injection
,Jun 13, 2020
NEWS (6/11/20) — Florida: The Florida Supreme Court applied new cases that retroactively changed the law regarding claims of intellectual disability and the unconstitutionality of death sentences imposed after non-unanimous jury votes for …
Innocence
,Intellectual Disability
,Sep 21, 2020
NEWS (9/17/20) — Florida: The Florida Supreme Court has denied post-conviction relief to Ken Lott, retroactiv…
Arbitrariness
,Sentencing Data
,Nov 29, 2016
On November 23, the Florida Supreme Court overturned the death sentence imposed by a judge on Richard Franklin after his jury split 9 – 3 in recommending he receive the death penalty for a 2012 murder. “In light of …
Mental Illness
,Representation
,United States Supreme Court
,Oct 09, 2019
The 2019 – 2020 U.S. Supreme Court term opened on October 7 with the Court declining to review challenges to death-penalty court decisions from a number of states and with the Court hearing argument in a Kansas deat…
United States Supreme Court
,Mar 11, 2020
Former Florida death-row prisoner Timothy Hurst (pictured), whose case led the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Florida’s death-penalty statute in 2016 and spurred the elimination of non-unanimo…
Arbitrariness
,Sentencing Data
,United States Supreme Court
,Jan 12, 2016
In an 8 – 1 decision in Hurst v. Florida released on January 12, the U.S. Supreme Court found Florida’s capital sentencing scheme in violation of the 6th Amendment, wh…
