Continuing to make major changes in the state’s death-penalty system, the Florida Supreme Court scrapped a long-standing legal requirement of reviewing deaths sentences to determine if they are “disproportionate” punishment.

The justices, in a 5-1 ruling, said such reviews are not authorized by state law and pointed to “erroneous precedent” by the Supreme Court. But Justice Jorge Labarga wrote a sharply worded dissent that said the majority was rejecting a decades-old review requirement that helps prevent arbitrarily imposed death sentences.

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