Florida’s death penalty reviewed by U.S. Supreme Court, discussed in St. Augustine

Just as a closely watched U.S. Supreme Court case may strike down Florida’s death penalty sentencing laws, ACLU staff attorney Adam Tebrugge of Bradenton is discussing the death penalty Monday night in St. Augustine at an event sponsored in part by Amnesty International.

The high court is reviewing what the New York Times calls Florida’s “idiosyncratic capital sentencing system,” questioning whether it gives enough authority to jurors.

As former solicitor general Seth Waxman argued before the court last month in examining the case Hurst v Florida, Florida is the only state in the union where juries have a circumscribed role in…

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