DeSantis ramps up executions as bid for president nears
Gov. Ron DeSantis has now approved four executions in four months, ending a long drought for capital punishment in Florida.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis has now approved four executions in four months, ending a long drought for capital punishment in Florida.
TAMPA, Fla. — When the jurors came back with a verdict, reporters noticed three had tears in their eyes. One, as reported in the Tallahassee Democrat, would return to court
From the blog of Michael Zoosman at The Times of Israel
The co-founder of L'Chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty writes that returning to a supermajority jury decision in determining the death penalty rather than the unanimity now in Florida law, as Gov. Ron DeSantis has suggested, would be a mistake.
59-year-old Donald David Dillbeck is scheduled for execution next month. He was convicted in the 1990 stabbing death of a woman in the Tallahassee mall parking lot.