Other planks call abortion homicide and gender-transition care “child abuse.”
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The reason this is important is because a lot of conservative states have ALSO been trying to make the death penalty an allowable punishment for child abuse. Florida started this trend, and we all know how kill-happy Texas is.
Florida also tried to reduce the number of jurors in agreement 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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The reason this is important is because a lot of conservative states have ALSO been trying to make the death penalty an allowable punishment for child abuse. Florida started this trend, and we all know how kill-happy Texas is.
Florida also tried to reduce the number of jurors in agreement 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.