Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                  CONTACT: MARK ELLIOTT APRIL 22, 2015                                                                                       727.215.9646…

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Florida’s unusual death penalty sentencing scheme is constitutional. The high court will hear arguments in the case of Hurst v. Florida in the next session that begins in October. Florida is an outlier in how juries decide whether or not to recommend a sentence of death.…

The Florida Supreme Court has stayed the Feb. 26 execution of Jerry Correll. This and all Florida executions likely to be stayed until at least June when the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on Oklahoma’s lethal injection procedure that is virtually identical to Florida’s.