Florida overhauls death penalty in bid to resume executions

Mar 04, 2016, 04:09

The Florida Legislature on Thursday passed a new death sentencing law in an effort to renew the death penalty in the state after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in January that the current law was unconstitutional, the Associated Press reported. The new law, however, would require ten out of 12 jurors in a capital punishment case to agree on the death penalty.

The current Florida law allows juries to recommend death on a simply majority vote.

Florida lawmakers vowed after the opinion came down that they would fix the state's system to let them resume executions.

Florida execution chamber Florida previously only required that a majority of jurors recommend a death sentence

The high court's 8-1 ruling invalidated the process by which a judge sentenced Timothy Hurst to death for the 1998 murder of a fried-chicken restaurant manager.

But it shows the continuing impact that the Supreme Court's ruling on Florida's death penalty is having this year.

Scott, who has overseen the most executions under a single governor since the death penalty was reinstated in Florida in 1979, plans to sign the bill into law, said his spokeswoman, Jackie Schutz. The uncertainty has delayed two scheduled executions in the state, and it was unclear what the impact the Supreme Court ruling would have on the almost 400 inmates on Florida's death row, the second-largest in the country.

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Attorney Marty McClain last month asked the court to postpone Asay's execution in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down Florida's death-penalty sentencing structure as unconstitutional. Jeff Clemens, a Lake Worth Democrat and one of the "no" votes. The Senate version originally would have required unanimous recommendations, but the measure was amended in what leaders called a compromise with the House. Darren Soto, D-Orlando. "Even though I'd rather it be a unanimous jury rather than 10-2, I'm glad that this bill will make us finally not the outlier on the death penalty".

The bill sent to Scott does not apply to the 389 inmates now sitting on Florida's death row.

Her ruling applied only to four death row inmates, she noted.

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In Alabama, a state circuit court judge on Thursday cited the Hurst decision in ruling her state's sentencing scheme unconstitutional.

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