Sentencing Alternatives
,Dec 12, 2021
In 2016, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that death sentences based on non-unanimous jury recommendations for death violated the state and federal constitutions. The Florida legislature then amended Florida’s death-sentencing law to require a unan…
Innocence
,Sentencing Alternatives
,DPIC Reports
,Mar 13, 2020
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
Sentencing Alternatives
,May 26, 2022
A Missouri judge has rejected the state’s first jury recommendation for a death sentence in nine years, and has instead re-sentenced former death-row prisoner Marvin D. Rice (pictured) to life without parole. …
Prosecutorial Accountability
,Sentencing Data
,Apr 11, 2019
The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered a new sentencing trial for Marvin D. Rice (pictured), a former sheriff’s deputy whose trial judge senten…
Sentencing Alternatives
,Mar 19, 2020
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…
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…
