Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Jul 17, 2023
Application of Florida’s New 8 – 4 Capital Sentencing Scheme “Moves the Goalposts” and Violates Constitutional Prohibition on Ex Post Facto Laws
Florida’s new death sentencing law
Entries tagged with “Jury Instructions”
Jun 27, 2023
Florida’s New Non-Unanimous Capital Sentencing Law Faces Retroactivity Challenge in State Supreme Court
The resentencing hearings of several death-sentenced men in Florida came to an abrupt halt last week as the Florida Supreme Court considers the effect of the state’s
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Jan 26, 2022
Kansas Supreme Court Rules that Death Penalty Does Not Violate State Constitution’s ‘Inalienable’ Right to Life
The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the state’s death penalty against two death-row prisoners’ challenges that capital punishment violates the “inalienable” right to life enshrined in the Kansas state constitution. In separate decisions re…