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The state is fighting to use Floridas new law, requiring ony eight jurors recommend death, in the Xbox Deltona mass murder resentencing.

The resentencing of Troy Victorino and Jerone Hunter in the Deltona mass murder was paused as the state fights to use the new death penalty law.

The State Attorney General’s Office on Wednesday filed an emergency motion to delay the resentencing trials of two defendants in the Deltona “Xbox Murders” case.

Appeals court orders halt to Xbox mass murder trial as it considers death penalty dispute

A resentencing trial continues for two men who were found guilty and sentenced to death in the brutal murders of six people in Deltona almost 19 years ago.

The re-sentencing trial for two men convicted in the 2004 murders of six people in Florida – known as the Deltona ‘Xbox murders" – was put on hold Thursday morning after an appeals court judge granted the state's motion to halt the trial.

Prosecutors want the court to overturn the judge's decision not to allow prosecutors to rely on Florida’s new death penalty law.

The judge presiding over a penalty phase retrial for two defendants in one of Central Florida’s grisliest massacres said he will not use a new state law that sets forth jury requirements in recommending the death penalty. Instead, that judge is sticking to an older version of the law.

Two of the four men convicted in the 2004 Deltona mass murders are back in a Volusia County courtroom for resentencing.

A resentencing trial is underway for two men convicted in a gruesome murder in Deltona nearly 20 years ago.