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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – With Florida making it easier for juries to impose the death sentence, two formerly condemned inmates who are still behind bars are…
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TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a bill eliminating a requirement for unanimous jury recommendations before judges can impose death…
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MULBERRY, Fla. – With much less notice than the Florida abortion, guns and education culture wars, a battle between environmentalists and a Fortune 500…
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Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you• WUFT News: 400 pride flags planted in Micanopy on…
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Republican Florida House of Representatives Bobby Payne, Palatka, and Tyler Sirois, Merritt Island, are cosponsoring HB 1543, which proposes to reduce the minimum age at which a person may purchase, sell or transfer a firearm from 21 to 18. The measure is headed to the Criminal Justice Subcommittee for discussion March 13.
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Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you• Fresh Take Florida: Former UF quarterback faces years…
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Schoolchildren, teachers, anti-death penalty advocates and attorneys gathered across the street from the Florida State Prison in Raiford Thursday protesting the execution of David Dillbeck, a convicted murderer.
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Gina Montalto lost her life five years ago during the Majory Stoneman Douglas school shooting.Her father, Tony, said on Tuesday during the five-year…
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Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you• WUFT News: Gainesville Mayor Harvey Ward delivers…
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It’s been five years, but memories of her peers’ screams ringing through the halls of her high school still echo in Rachel Taylor’s mind.Fire alarms…