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…
I promised to keep you informed and we just learned that one of the multiple pieces of legislation that would expand Florida’s death penalty and return the state to its outlier status of being the most death-friendly state in the country was scheduled for a hearing this Monday, March 20, at 3:30 pm, in the…
As is common in the death penalty world, it has been an up and down week. First, the down: I am saddened that once again the Governor has chosen to set the execution for Louis Gaskin, a man with severe mental illness who was sentenced to death by an 8-4 vote jury vote. It is…
