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Florida keeps inching closer to having a working death penalty in the state.This week, the Senate Criminal Justice Committee overwhelmingly approved a…
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Some of the nearly 400 prisoners waiting on Florida’s Death Row will not be allowed a re-sentencing under new death penalty laws, the state Supreme Court…
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The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously rejected an appeal by a Death Row inmate sentenced to death for shooting and robbing a man lured from...
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Florida is an outlier when it comes to sentencing people to death.A new report looked at each of the 3,143 county or county equivalents in the country to…
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The death of an inmate on Florida's death row is being investigated as a potential crime, according to the state Department of Corrections.Lloyd Chase…
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The U.S. Supreme Court this fall will hear arguments in a challenge to the way Florida sentences people to death --- a challenge backed by three former…
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Over the last several years, European drug manufacturers have tried to limit the use of their products in lethal injection executions. As a result, death…
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The Supreme Court will examine Florida's capital punishment system in its next term, and legal experts believe Florida's death penalty itself may be in…
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UPDATE 6/2/2014: The City of Pembrook Pines has won their bid for the empty prison. Mayor Frank Ortis says the City wanted to control what happened with…
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01/31/14 - This is a Topical Currents online bonus segment. After the broadcast, there were many unanswered questions. Host Bonnie Berman continues the…
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01/29/14 Wednesday's Topical Currents is with Texas attorney David Dow, who’s defended some 100 death row inmates and witnessed many executions. He says…
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Gov. Rick Scott has scheduled a February execution for Juan Carlos Chavez, who committed the notorious 1995 murder of 9-year-old Jimmy Ryce in Miami-Dade…