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Governor Rick Scott is defending his decision to reassign 23 capital murder cases to a neighboring state attorney.Scott took 23 capital murder cases away…
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Dozens of prosecutors and judges from around the nation have filed a legal brief in support of a Florida prosecutor who refuses to seek the death penalty.
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Aside from debating life and death, the conversation around Florida’s death penalty has some racist undertones, as evidenced this week after…
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Jury selection began Monday morning in the first death penalty murder trial in Orange County since ninth circuit state attorney Aramis Ayala said she would not pursue that punishment. 29-year-old Juan Rosario faces execution for arson and first degree murder in the death of his 83-year-old neighbor Elena Ortega.
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National and state civil rights groups filed paperwork Thursday supporting Orange and Osceola state attorney Aramis Ayala’s federal lawsuit against Governor Rick Scott. In an amicus brief the eight groups said Scott overstepped his bounds by reassigning 23 of Ayala’s cases to another prosecutor.
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Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala has filed a federal lawsuit against the governor. The lawsuit comes after Gov. Rick Scott reassigned 23 death penalty cases to a different state attorney.
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Orange and Osceola County State Attorney Aramis Ayala says Governor Rick Scott has gone too far. The governor has reassigned 22 cases away from Ayala…
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Herman Lindsey can tell you what it's like to wait for a turn with death.He was put on Florida's death row in 2007, after being convicted of the murder of…
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State Attorney Brad King says he will seek the death penalty for Markeith Loyd. King was assigned to the case by Governor Rick Scott after Orange and Osceola County prosecutor Aramis Ayala refused to seek the death penalty for Loyd or other cases in her jurisdiction.
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Gov. Rick Scott has reassigned 21 murder cases from state attorney Aramis Ayala’s office over her refusal to seek the death penalty.