Florida House Bill 139 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: Failed on April 28 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-04-28 - Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires that advisory sentence of death be made by unanimous recommendation of jury after defendant's conviction or adjudication of guilt; requires court to instruct jury that, in order for jury to recommend to court that death penalty be imposed, jury must find that sufficient aggravating circumstances exist which outweigh any mitigating circumstances; requires court to instruct jury that each aggravating circumstance must be proven beyond reasonable doubt by unanimous vote; requires that court provide special verdict form for each aggravating circumstance.

Sentencing in Capital Felonies

Sen. Jose Rodriguez [D]	Rep. Clovis Watson [D]	Rep. Katie Edwards [D]	Sen. Debbie Mayfield [R]
Rep. Mark Pafford [D]	Rep. Raymond Pilon [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-04-28	House	Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
2015-03-03	House	Introduced
2015-01-08	House	Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee; Justice Appropriations Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
2014-12-23	House	Filed

S0664 (Similar To) 2015-05-01 - Died in Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
921	141		Amended Code	See Bill Text
921	142		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/139
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0139/BillText/Filed/PDF