Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith, who was on Florida's death row for killing Carlie Brucia in Sarasota, died on Monday.

The ruling comes after the U.S. Supreme Court found Florida’s death-penalty system unconstitutional.

In filings Monday at the Florida Supreme Court, the attorney general’s office said rulings last year by justices in other cases require that Joseph Smith and four other convicted murderers be resentenced.

It's happening again, and may happen more and more. A death sentence has been overturned in Florida, because the sentence was imposed under a state law…