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How quickly should courts change the law? Florida tests the limit Friday, February 7, 2020

Christian Science Monitor

When the Florida Supreme Court ruled late last month that a unanimous jury is not required for the state to hand down a death sentence, the decision reverberated in the state prisons that house hundreds of felons already sentenced to death.

The legal wrangling over their fate overnight became “chaos,” says Marty McClain, a death-penalty lawyer.

After all, only four years earlier, Florida had struck down the power of judges, not juries, to decide whether or not to execute convicted felons. That ruling followed a landmark U.S. Supreme Court finding that Florida’s system for capital sentencing was unconstitutional and led nearly 100 inmates on death row there to challenge their sentences.

Read more at: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2020/0206/How-quickly-should-courts-change-the-law-Florida-tests-the-limit

 

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