Death Penalty

Agreement is needed from only eight jurors for a death penalty recommendation. That’s under a new Florida law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis Thursday.

Legislators approved a bill that will allow death penalty sentences with the recommendation of at least eight jurors in favor. It now goes to Gov. Ron DeSantis.

House and Senate committees this week considered proposals that would allow the death penalty for anyone who sexually batters a child under the age of 12.

Dillbeck was put to death by lethal injection Thursday evening for the murder of a woman in a Tallahassee mall parking lot. He also killed a Lee County deputy as a teenager.

Attorneys for 59-year-old Donald Dillbeck went to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to try to prevent Thursday's lethal injection. Dillbeck killed Faye Vann in 1990.

The Florida Supreme Court has rejected appeals by a death row inmate who killed Faye Vann in the Tallahassee Mall parking lot in 1990.

Donald David Dillbeck is scheduled for execution later this month for the 1990 murder of Faye Vann in the Tallahassee Mall parking lot.

With backing from Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida lawmakers could scrap a requirement that unanimous jury recommendations are needed before death sentences can be imposed.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said he doesn’t think the current U.S. Supreme Court would uphold the 2008 decision ruling that barred the death penalty in rape cases.

After the jury recommended a life sentence, there was a notion that the verdict will set a precedent of leniency that could help motivate future mass killers. An expert breaks down that claim.