Entries tagged with “Non-unanimity”

Policy Issues

Innocence

Sentencing Alternatives

DPIC Reports

Mar 13, 2020

DPIC Analysis: Exoneration Data Suggests Non-Unanimous Death-Sentencing Statutes Heighten Risk of Wrongful Convictions

Capital sentencing schemes that permit judges to impose a death sentence despite the votes of one or more jurors for life create a heightened risk that an innocent person will be wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death, according to a new

Policy Issues

Sentencing Alternatives

Mar 19, 2020

News Brief — Florida Supreme Court Denies Relief in Two More Jury Non-Unanimity Cases

NEWS (3/19/20): Florida — The Florida Supreme Court has denied new sentencing hearings to two more death-row prisoners who were sentenced to death after non-unanimous sentencing recommendations by their juries. Relying on the cour…

Policy Issues

United States Supreme Court

Mar 11, 2020

Timothy Hurst, Whose Case Struck Down Florida’s Death-Penalty Statute, Is Resentenced to Life

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…