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Man Executed in Florida for Woman's 1986 Stabbing Death
Florida has executed a man convicted of breaking into a woman’s home and stabbing her to death in 1986. Authorities say 56-year-old Darryl B. Barwick was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. Wednesday following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke. Barwick had confessed to killing 24-year-old Rebecca Wendt in her Panama City apartment on March 31, 1986, after...
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Miami Juror in Historic Death Penalty Trial Explains Life in Prison Verdict
Miguel Ruiz Lobo’s trial was the last in Florida where the jury had to reach a unanimous decision for the death penalty
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Juror Speaks Out About Deciding Between Life Or Death
A juror in the death penalty trial of Miguel Ruiz Lobo talks to NBC6’s Christian Colón about the decision to give him life in prison.
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New Law Removes Unanimous Jury for Death Penalty
Florida will no longer require unanimous jury recommendations for judges to impose death-penalty sentences under a bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. NBC6’s Marissa Bagg reports
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Governor Signs New Death Penalty Bill Into Law
The new law comes months after the Parkland school shooter avoided getting the death penalty.
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DeSantis Signs Bill Removing Unanimous Jury for Death Penalty in Wake of Parkland Trial
Florida will no longer require unanimous jury recommendations for judges to impose death-penalty sentences under a bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis Thursday.
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Florida Executes ‘Ninja Killer' for Couple's 1989 Death
Florida has executed a man known as the “ninja killer” for the 1989 slayings of a couple visiting the state from New Jersey. The governor’s office says Louis Bernard Gaskin was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday after receiving a lethal injection. He was convicted of killing Robert and Georgette Sturmfels at their Flagler County winter home on Florida’s northeastern...
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Florida Senate Passes Bill Removing Unanimous Jury Requirement for Death Penalty
In an issue that emerged after the Parkland school shooter was sentenced to life in prison, the Florida Senate on Thursday supported eliminating a requirement for unanimous jury recommendations before judges can impose death sentences.
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Bill to Remove Unanimous Jury Requirement for Death Penalty Moves to Florida Senate
A key Senate committee Wednesday supported eliminating a requirement for unanimous jury recommendations before death sentences can be imposed, but it backed giving judges discretion in making the ultimate decisions. The Senate Rules Committee voted 15-4 to approve a bill (SB 450) that would allow death sentences to be imposed based on the recommendations of eight of 12 jurors —…
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Parkland Families Speak Out About Death Penalty in Tallahassee
Some families of the Parkland victims spoke out as lawmakers discussed a possible overhaul of the death penalty in Florida. NBC 6’s Steve Litz reports
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Florida Executes Man for 1990 Murder While a Fugitive
Florida has executed a man for murdering a woman in 1990 while he was a fugitive from prison. The governor’s office said Donald Dillbeck died Thursday at 6:13 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection. This was Florida’s first execution in nearly four years, and the third under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Dillbeck had stabbed Faye Vann over 20 times while...
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Parkland Jury Outcome Likely to Revamp Florida Death Penalty Law
Lawmakers in Tallahassee will likely buck national trends and make it easier for a jury to recommend the death penalty in Florida.
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Parkland 5 Years Later: Impact on the Death Penalty
Five years after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a look at its impact on the state’s death penalty.
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Florida Could End Unanimous Jury Requirement for Executions
Florida could make it easier for juries to hand down the death penalty. Republicans encouraged by Gov. Ron DeSantis have introduced legislation making it easier to send convicts to death row by eliminating a unanimous jury requirement. The movement began after the Parkland school shooter was spared from execution in a decision last November that shocked victims’ families. The bills...
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DeSantis Reiterates Stance on Deciding Death Penalty
Gov. Ron DeSantis addressed a bill on how the death penalty is decided in the wake of the Parkland shooter sentencing. NBC 6’s Steve Litz reports
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Suspect Guilty in NYC Halloween Truck Attack That Killed 8, Could Face Death Penalty
Jurors reached a guilty verdict in the federal death penalty case of a 34-year-old man who killed eight people on a Manhattan bike path five years ago in a bid, prosecutors said, to impress a terrorist group.
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Missouri Set for First US Execution of an Openly Transgender Woman
Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.
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Death Penalty in US Declining, as ‘Botched' Executions Increase
An annual report on capital punishment says public support and use of the death penalty continued a more than two-decade decline in the U.S. in 2022.
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Outrage Over Life for Parkland Shooter Has Movement Underway to Change Florida Law
Soon the families who lost loved ones at Parkland will have their final say in court on what this tragedy has done to them as moves are already underway to alter the way Florida decides if convicted killers should be executed.
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Legal Experts Weigh in On Life Sentence v. Death Penalty in Parkland Massacre Case
The stunning jury decision to spare the Parkland mass murderer’s life is still reverberating among the victims and throughout the legal community, especially after everyone saw the visceral outrage from the families Thursday.