Death Penalty

Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book, who was sexually abused as a child, said “there is no statute of limitations” on the suffering of victims.

Legislators have already passed bills that allow for permitless gun garry, and allowing every student to be eligible for taxpayer-funded school vouchers.

Judges would still have discretion to sentence defendants to life in prison after receiving jury recommendations of death sentences.

The bill's sponsor says it's an effort to avoid one “protest juror” from preventing a death sentence.

Louis Bernard Gaskin was convicted in a 1989 double slaying. It would be the second execution this year.

The bills, which would require eight of 12 jurors to recommend death, conflict with longstanding decisions by the U.S. and Florida Supreme Courts that bar capital punishment in such cases.

The governor's office said Donald Dillbeck died Thursday at 6:13 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection. It was Florida’s first execution in nearly four years.

The Florida Supreme Court has rejected appeals by a death row inmate who killed Faye Vann in the Tallahassee Mall parking lot in 1990.

The bill, which would allow judges to sentence defendants to death based on the recommendations of eight of 12 jurors. is up for discussion six years after lawmakers added the unanimous requirement.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said he doesn’t think the current U.S. Supreme Court would uphold the 2008 decision ruling that barred the death penalty in rape cases.

Susan Lopez reversed a previous ruling by suspended Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren and said Matthew Terry should face the death penalty if convicted in the stabbing death of Kay Baker.

The confessed Parkland school shooter may face the death penalty after a hearing Wednesday. Here's what that could mean, some of the history of the penalty in Florida, and a timeline for what's next in his case.