Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill allowing for the death penalty for child rapists, the state's second change to death penalty policy in recent months.
The law was one of several DeSantis signed as he sends a "tough-on-crime" message ahead of a likely 2024 presidential run.Alex Brandon / AP fileFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday allowing for the death penalty for child rapists, setting up a potential Supreme Court challenge., which will become law on Oct. 1, makes sexual battery of a person under 12 a capital crime.
DeSantis, a likely 2024 Republican presidential candidate, has sought to project a law-and-order message as he tries to take Florida's policies to a national audience. In a“We think that in the worst of the worst cases, the only appropriate punishment is the ultimate punishment, and so this bill sets up a procedure to be able to challenge that precedent,” DeSantis said at a Monday news conference in Titusville, Florida, speaking behind a podium with a sign that said"Law & Order.
The bill, which was passed overwhelmingly by the Florida House and Senate, is the state's second change to death penalty policy in recent months. In April, DeSantis signed a bill that lowered the threshold of jurors needed to recommend the death penalty from 12 to eight.
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