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The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to block the execution after Michael Zack III’s lawyers had argued he was a victim of fetal alcohol syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Okeechobee County prosecutors recently filed a court notice saying they will seek a death sentence against 36-year-old Mathew Flores. He is charged with first-degree murder for the Jan. 30 slaying of 74-year-old Gary Levin.
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A new law that could lead to imposing the death penalty on people who rape children under age 12 will take effect Sunday, along with other laws passed during the 2023 legislative session.
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U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle issued a six-page order denying a stay of execution for Zack, who was sentenced to death in the 1996 murder of a woman in Escambia County.
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Nearly five years after voters passed a constitutional amendment about victims’ rights, Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office Monday urged the Florida Supreme Court to use the measure to make it harder for Death Row inmates to get stays of execution.
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With inmate Michael Duane Zack scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Oct. 3, his attorneys have gone to the Florida Supreme Court after a circuit judge refused to halt the execution.
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A new state law lowering the number of jurors required to recommend death sentences has spurred a rash of litigation, triggered conflicting judicial rulings and infused an additional level of uncertainty in capital cases.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a death warrant for Michael Duane Zack, 54, an inmate convicted in the 1996 murder of a woman he met in an Escambia County bar.
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James Phillip Barnes, 61, received a lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison in Starke.
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Florida is preparing to execute James Phillip Barnes, 61, who was convicted of strangling his wife and brutally murdering another woman years earlier.
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Duane Owen was sentenced to death for the Palm Beach County rape and fatal stabbing of Karen Slattery, 14, and for the rape and deadly hammer attack two months later on Georgianna Worden, 38.
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Without explanation, the Supreme Court issued an order rejecting requests by inmate Duane Owen's lawyers to halt Thursday's planned execution. The Florida Supreme Court also issued two opinions last week refusing to block the execution.