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Florida may carry out more executions in 2025 than in any other year in recent history. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed nine death warrants so far. Seven have been carried out.

The bill, which would allow judges to sentence defendants to death based on the recommendations of eight of 12 jurors. is up for discussion six years after lawmakers added the unanimous requirement.

Defense lawyers are attacking a new law aimed at fixing Florida's death penalty sentencing structure, which was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court...

The jurors said the death of a teenager "weighed heavily on our hearts." But they did what the "law required."