Friday, September 15, 2006
Florida Death Penalty Assessment Report
From ResourceShelf's Docuticker:
Florida Death Penalty Assessment Report
Source: American Bar Association
From press release:
“The Florida team unanimously agreed that the state fails to comply or
is only in partial compliance with many of the protocols developed by
the ABA to assess death penalty systems. It specifically identified 11
problem areas in the state system, including: the high number of
death-row exonerations (22 since 1973), the failure to ensure that
lawyers assigned to represent capital defendants during the
post-conviction process are qualified and adequately compensated, the
continued existence of racial and charging disparities in capital
sentencing, the fact that unanimity is not required in jury sentencing
decisions, the failure to give sufficient weight to the mitigating
effects of serious mental disability, and the level of secrecy
surrounding the clemency process.”
Note: “Florida is the fourth state assessed under the
ABA project. Assessments in Georgia, Alabama and Arizona also are
complete and are accessible on the ABA’s Web site. Other assessments
are being conducted in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and
Virginia.”
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