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Should Legislature Require Unanimous Juries for Death Penalty Cases?

Recently, The U.S. Supreme Court declared that Florida’s death penalty law to be unconstitutional because it requires the judge – not the jury – to make the critical findings necessary and to impose capital punishment. Florida’s current system is at odds with the Sixth Amendment, which requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a death sentence. It is not yet clear how many cases could be affected by this, but the 400 inmates currently on the state’s death row will most likely be affected.

Read the full article here.

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