Entries tagged with “Miami-Dade County”
Issues
Dec 12, 2016
OUTLIER COUNTIES: Miami-Dade Death Sentences Reflect Constitutional Defects, Misconduct
Miami-Dade County has historically been a significant contributor to Florida’s death row and large proportions of its recent death sentences raise serious constitutional questions about the practices that result in death verdicts and the characteristics of the defendants who are sentenced to death. Miami-Dade imposed five death sentences between 2010 and 2015, placing it among the 16 counties that produced more death sentences than 99.5% of all U.S. counties. The questionable reliability of…