The vast majority of Florida’s 30 death row exonerees were either sentenced to death by non-unanimous juries or sentenced to death by judges who rejected a jury’s recommendation of a life sentence and imposed death instead. Annibal Jaramillo (Unanimous for Life) Anthony Brown (Unanimous for Life) Robert DuBoise (Unanimous for Life) Juan Ramos (11-1 for…
Last week, Gov. DeSantis signed Florida’s second death warrant of 2023, scheduling the execution of Louis Gaskin for April 12. The warrant comes less than a month after the state executed Donald Dillbeck — the state’s 100th execution since modern capital sentencing was instituted. Of the nearly 150 inmates on Florida’s death row who are…
The Florida Senate Rules Committee voted today to advance SB 450, Death Penalty (Ingoglia). This bill would return Florida to its outlier state of allowing nonunanimous juries to recommend a death sentence. The highlight of my career was when Clemente Aguirre, a man I represented for over ten years during his wrongful incarceration, became Florida’s…
