Florida bill would let judges override juries and impose death penalty

[In It to Win It]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-bill-let-judges-override-194900985.html

Florida could soon be the only state where a judge could override a jury’s recommendation for a life sentence and give the death penalty instead, under proposed legislation to recraft Florida’s capital punishment system.

In identical bills filed by Rep. Berny Jacques, R-Seminole, and Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill, the legislation proposes that “notwithstanding the recommendation of the jury,” the court can “enter a sentence of life imprisonment or death.”

The language is nearly identical to Florida’s previous statute, which allowed judicial override until 2016, when the Legislature reworked the statute following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said judges had too much power, instead of juries, when it came to the death penalty.

Along with opening the door for judicial override again, the bill proposes doing away with requiring unanimous jury verdicts for a death penalty sentence, lowering the threshold to an 8-4 majority.

Alabama, the only state that currently has a nonunanimous jury sentencing requirement, has a 10-2 threshold; it abolished its judicial override provision in 2017.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Like I been telling you, they want ALL of us dead

[samsingh]

2. what could go wrong?

[dalton99a]

3. Get rid of the jury system. All you need is DeSantis judges

[Runningdawg]

6. If we stay on this trajectory, it's coming. Killer cops are doing their part to end jury trials.

[Chainfire]

12. We don't need no stinking judges if we have DeSantis.

If we have juries, we could just rule that if one jury thinks he is guilty, we can convict. DeSantis is a monster on the loose.

[hlthe2b]

4. So, now, how do they ensure judges are properly & fully sadistic before they are appointed?

Is there a sadism breeding program supplemented with sociopathic on-the-job training?

[SergeStorms]

9. The YRNF.

Young republicans national federation. Also known as Hitler Youth, or the young republicans. Sadism and sociopathic on-the-job training at its lowest.

[Turbineguy]

5. Repubs love killing.

[Runningdawg]

7. In the name of Jesus. Odd - Their god did not impose the death penalty on the first murderer.

[chowder66]

8. Are public hangings next? How about being drawn and quartered?

Sounds like a damn medieval city in the making.

Disease, death and oppression.

[viva la]

10. This competition between Florida and Texas over who can be the most ruthless cruel state...

is really heating up.

[spanone]

11. Then why have juries?

FASCISTS