'In Florida, we stand for the protection of children,' DeSantis told reporters. 'We think that in the worst of the worst cases the only appropriate punishment is the ultimate punishment.' DeSantis signs law allowing death penalty for child rape:
, which requires the Florida Supreme Court to develop a uniform statewide bond schedule and adds DUI manslaughter, fentanyl trafficking, extortion, and written threats to kill to a list of "dangerous crimes" allowing for pretrial detention.
And it's been only a couple weeks since DeSantis signed into law a bill that makes it easier to get death penalty decisions in Florida.death penalty threshold in the country. The law makes it so it takes only eight of 12 jury members to recommend a death sentence. Before, death penalties required a unanimous jury decision.a Broward County jury rejected the death penalty for the man who killed 17 people at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.
Florida's law required a unanimous jury decision, and three jurors wanted the life sentence over the death penalty, sparking outcry among those — including the governor, as well as many lawmakers and victims' family members — who felt the shooter got off too easy. That law allows a judge to deviate from a jury that recommends a death sentence and give life in prison instead. It does not, though, allow a judge to impose death against a jury's wishes.in death row exonerations, with 30 people exonerated since the state brought back capital punishment in the 1970s. Opponents worry making death penalty laws stricter will lead more innocent people to being put on death row.
After a more-than-three-year hiatus of not signing death warrants, DeSantis has signed multiple over the last several months, starting on Jan. 23, the day DeSantis announced he wanted lawmakers to lower the death penalty threshold.
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