The life sentence about to be imposed on Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz could bring changes to the state's death penalty law
during pregnancy that witnesses said created a brain-damaged person who began displaying erratic, bizarre and violent behavior at age 2.
But some defense attorneys and capital punishment experts said it wasn't surprising the jurors couldn't unanimously agree.The latest Gallup Poll showed 54% of Americans favor the death penalty, down from 80% in the mid-1990s. And while the Cruz jurors all said they could vote for the death penalty if chosen, they didn't say they support it.
“It’s not a question of does the murder warrant the death penalty. is clearly the type of case in which a jury could reasonably impose the death penalty," Dunham said."The question is ‘Does the defendant deserve the death penalty?’” Three years later, however, DeSantis, a Republican, replaced three retiring Florida justices with more conservative jurists and the state court. It said a death recommendation no longer needed to be unanimous, but legislators through three annual sessions haven't changed the law back from unanimity. DeSantis never pushed them.
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