Supreme Court strikes down Florida's death penalty system

[flowers]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-court-florida-death-sentence-20160112-story.html

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down Florida's death penalty system on the grounds that judges, not juries, decide the key facts that determine whether a killer is condemned to die.

In an 8-1 ruling, the justices said this judge-driven system violates a defendant's right to a jury trial.

The ruling will likely give new sentencing hearings to inmates who were recently sentenced to death in Florida, but the justices in the past have said such new rulings do not apply automatically to old cases.

This too has been on the list the left has wanted to take out for decades. Obama will do that as well. No more death penalty in USA by 2017.

[Scottftlc]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-court-florida-death-sentence-20160112-story.html

This too has been on the list the left has wanted to take out for decades. Obama will do that as well. No more death penalty in USA by 2017.

Well except the death penalty visited upon society somewhat generally and randomly by the importation of populations from places like Syria...

[truth_seeker]

There are nearly 400 on death row in Florida. The system allowed a judge to take a case with a non-unanimous jury verdict, and make a death penalty ruling.

Joining the liberals in the decision are conservatives Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and frequently swing justice Kennedy.