Other planks call abortion homicide and gender-transition care “child abuse.”
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This is REALLY scary because a lot of conservative states have also been trying to add the death penalty as an allowable punishment for child abuse. Anyone with half a mind can see where this is going. Florida started this trend, and we all know how kill-happy Texas is.
Florida also tried to reduce the number of jurors needed to execute someone from 12 to 9
Are you saying they’re reducing jury size? The Supreme Court ruled years ago that non-unanimous criminal convictions are unconstitutional, but I guess they can just change the rules at any moment to undo that like so much else they’re at work on overturning.
Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Thursday that will no longer require juries agree unanimously to recommend death sentences, reducing the number of jurors need to recommend a death sentence to the lowest threshold of any state with capital punishment.
SB 450 reduces the number of jurors needed to recommend a death sentence from 12 to 8.
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This is REALLY scary because a lot of conservative states have also been trying to add the death penalty as an allowable punishment for child abuse. Anyone with half a mind can see where this is going. Florida started this trend, and we all know how kill-happy Texas is.
Florida also tried to reduce the number of jurors needed to execute someone from 12 to 9
Are you saying they’re reducing jury size? The Supreme Court ruled years ago that non-unanimous criminal convictions are unconstitutional, but I guess they can just change the rules at any moment to undo that like so much else they’re at work on overturning.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/politics/death-penalty-ron-desantis-florida-parkland-shooting/index.html (Apr 2023)
The unanimous requirement is for convictions. A separate jury is usually convened for sentencing, and is not necessarily required to be unanimous.