Florida Senate Bill 772 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Criminal Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring that an advisory sentence of death be made by a unanimous recommendation of the jury after a defendant's conviction or adjudication of guilt for a capital felony or capital drug-trafficking felony; requiring the court to instruct the jury that, in order for the jury to recommend to the court that the death penalty be imposed, the jury must find that sufficient aggravating circumstances exist which outweigh any mitigating circumstances found to exist; requiring the court to instruct the jury that each aggravating circumstance used to support the jury's recommendation of death be proven beyond a reasonable doubt by a unanimous vote; requiring that the court provide a special verdict form for each aggravating circumstance found, etc.

Sentencing in Capital Felonies

Rep. Thad Altman [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Criminal Justice
2012-01-10		Introduced -SJ 65
2011-11-18		Now in Criminal Justice
2011-11-18		References corrected to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Budget -SJ 65
2011-11-16		Referred to Judiciary; Criminal Justice; Budget
2011-11-01		Filed

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/2012/772
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0772/BillText/Filed/HTML