Demonstrators plan to rally at the Duval County courthouse on Wednesday to oppose the death penalty, after rallying in both the Tampa and Orlando areas this week.
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He was convicted and sentenced to death for stabbing a woman to death during an attempted carjacking in a Tallahassee shopping mall parking lot in 1990.Now, demonstrators plan to rally at the Duval County courthouse on Wednesday to oppose the execution, after rallying in both the Tampa and Orlando areas this week.
When the legislative session resumes next month, lawmakers will consider bills that would change the required unanimous jury recommendation for a death sentence to be at least an 8-4 vote instead.The governor cited the Parkland school shooting massacre, where last year three jurors voted not to recommend a death sentence for the gunman who killed 17 students and educators at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.
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