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A Broward judge will decide this week whether another jury will walk through the crime scene at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were murdered on Valentine’s Day 2018.

Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer is leaving the bench on 30 June

The Florida judge who oversaw the penalty trial of the Parkland mass murderer is resigning

Florida will now only require an 8–4 majority for a jury to recommend a death sentence. Alabama is the only other state that allows split juries to recommend death sentences.

A Florida bill ending the unanimous jury requirement in death penalty sentencing is now law after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it in a private ceremony Thursday

Florida will soon no longer require unanimous jury recommendations for judges to impose death penalty sentences

Florida Gov. LeRoy Collins’ hands trembled when he could no longer put off signing a death warrant. There would be 29 of them. His secretary said it made her physically ill to type them at first. But she got used to it.

Jurors in Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial will get a chance to see for themselves the rural hunting estate where his wife and son were killed

‘We’ve worked hard to bring accountability to folks who maybe could have done something’

PARKLAND, Fla. — The walls still hold up the ceilings, but they’re pocked with bullet holes.

The governor and many Florida lawmakers want to make it easier to sentence murderers to death. But will their plan live up to their expectations or will it just deepen the legal quagmire that already envelops state-sanctioned executions?