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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    The justices in Delaware were looking for an excuse to throw it out, Hurst didn't even address the vote for sentencing.
    Those same justices set two execution dates one in 2011, and one in 2012. By 2016, those same justices said there’s is unconstitutional. Washington Supreme Court let one execution proceed in 2010.
    In 2018, the bench was the still the same except for two judges. They unanimously struck it down. They became criminal rights activists over the course of the 2010s.
    They should all work for Robert Dunham after all, I saw a video of him having dinner with Larry Kranser. Those justices, Kranser, and Dunham, are disgusting criminal rights activists.
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    The Supreme Court in Delaware doesn't set dates. They aren't criminal rights activists, they are criminal activists.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    I just went back and looked. Delaware’s Supreme Court changed by 2016. It was a batch appointed by Markell. He said he would sign a repeal bill if it landed on his desk. At least he let two executions go through. Even still, he deserves a lot of scorn. Who knows? The batch of justices before them might’ve done the same thing and ruled it unconstitutional.
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    Florida Supreme Court: Major death penalty ruling will not be revisted

    The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday refused to reconsider a ruling that said unanimous jury recommendations are not necessary before death sentences can be imposed.

    The court, in a 4-1 decision, rejected a request for a rehearing by attorneys for Death Row inmate Mark Anthony Poole. As is common, the decision did not explain the court’s reasoning.

    Chief Justice Charles Canady and justices Ricky Polston, Alan Lawson and Carlos Muniz were in the majority, while Justice Jorge Labarga supported granting a rehearing. The Supreme Court issued a ruling in January that said justices “got it wrong” in 2016 when they required changes such as unanimous jury recommendations on death sentences.

    The January decision reversing course reinstated a death sentence for Poole, who was convicted in Polk County in the 2001 first-degree murder of Noah Scott, the attempted murder and sexual battery of Loretta White, armed burglary and armed robbery.

    A jury in 2011 recommended by a vote of 11-1 that Poole should be sentenced to death --- a sentence that a judge imposed. But based on the Florida Supreme Court’s 2016 decision, Poole’s death sentence was later vacated because of the lack of a unanimous jury recommendation.

    In a filing in February opposing the request for a rehearing at the Supreme Court, Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office argued that unanimous jury recommendations are not required under the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment.

    The decisions this year came after a long, complicated series of issues that stemmed from a January 2016 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in a case dubbed Hurst v. Florida. That ruling found the state’s death-penalty system was unconstitutional because it gave too much authority to judges, instead of juries, in imposing death sentences.

    The Florida Supreme Court in October 2016 interpreted and applied the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, including requiring unanimous jury recommendations.

    In 2017, the Legislature passed a law that required unanimous jury recommendations as it complied with the state Supreme Court ruling. That law remains in place.

    (source: fox35orlando.com)
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    Petition for writ of certiorari filed to SCOTUS on August 28, 2020.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....ic/20-250.html
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    Distributed for conference January 8, 2021.

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    Petition for certiorari denied.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Florida
    Case Numbers: (SC18-245)
    Decision Date: January 23, 2020
    Rehearing Denied: April 2, 2020

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/...21zor_5he6.pdf
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