Academic report

USA: Death in Florida

By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2017


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In March 2017, Rick Scott, Governor of Florida, responded to a State Attorney’s decision not to pursue the death penalty because of its demonstrable flaws by ordering her replacement with a prosecutor willing to engage in this lethal pursuit. Since then the governor has transferred 27 capital murder cases to his preferred prosecutor. Two of these cases have already resulted in juries voting for death sentences.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Fair Trial, Legal Representation, Country/Regional profiles,



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