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Florida juries would have to unanimously agree that defendants should be condemned to death for the sentence to be imposed, under a proposal given swift and overwhelming approval at its first Senate committee Monday

In response to a Florida Supreme Court ruling last October, lawmakers today filed a measure that would require unanimous jury recommendations for death sentences to be imposed.

In 2016, Donald Trump was elected to the White House. The Cubs won the World Series. And Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In other words, it was the kind of year that seemed designed to make Florida news look normal.

Justice James E.C. Perry on Thursday rendered a blistering analysis of the manner in which the death penalty is carried out in Florida.

More than half of Florida's inmates sentenced to death may avoid execution under a far-reaching ruling handed down by the state's Supreme Court.

Gov. Rick Scott on Friday selected C. Alan Lawson, chief judge of the Daytona Beach-based 5th District Court of Appeal, to replace Justice James E.C. Perry, who is retiring.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida filed a lawsuit late Monday challenging a Florida law that the ACLU contends violates constitutional rights by requiring groups to register with the state and pay a fee if they advise or help women seek abortions.

The Florida Supreme Court rejected a request Friday to invalidate proposed constitutional Amendment 1.

Lawyers for a Death Row inmate Larry Darnell Perry are blasting Attorney General Pam Bondi's request that the Florida Supreme Court clarify a decision that struck down a new law because it did not require unanimous jury recommendations in death-penalty cases.