Florida’s new death penalty sentencing process should apply to prosecutions that were already underway when the new law took effect this month, a state appeals court ruled.
The Fifth District Court of Appeal also decided that a U.S. Supreme Court decision in Hurst v. Florida did not strike down the state’s entire death penalty as unconstitutional, just the procedure for imposing death sentences.
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