Right now 399 inmates, including three females, await their fate on Florida's death row. But the state has executed just 69 people since the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976.
The status of the death penalty in the Sunshine State is far from settled -- and, with the death of toddler Caylee Anthony and the emotional trial of her mother, the issue has suddenly sprung to life again.
Floridas political and legal leadership continued to react Thursday to ajury finding Casey Anthony not guilty of murder or manslaughter in the case of her dead 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
State Sen. Greg Evers, R-Baker, sent a letter to Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, asking for workshop meetings in the Senate Criminal Justice Committee. Evers, a freshman in the Senate who represents all of Holmes and Washington counties and parts of Bay, Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties, serves as chairman of the committee.
When the Republican Party of Florida's Presidency 4 summit rolled around four years ago, there was no straw poll and lots of internal tension.
This year's P5 -- set for Sept. 22-24 at the Orange County Convention Center -- is shaping up as a lively free-for-all hosted by a more unified, post-Charlie Crist party.
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul on Thursday introduced legislation he said would "protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees."
The measure states that "any federal employee or agency or any individual or entity that receives federal funds is not immune from any U.S. law regarding physical contact with another person, making images of another person, or causing physical harm through the use of radiation-emitting machinery on another person."
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State Sen. Greg Evers, R-Baker, likes the ideas of the presumption of innocence and the burden of proof on the state in murder trials, but now that Casey Anthony has been found not guilty of murdering her daughter, Caylee, by a jury of her peers, he wants a second look.
He wrote to Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, on Thursday, asking for workshop meetings in the Senate Criminal Justice Committee that he chairs.
Here is the letter in full:
Dear President Haridopolos:
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Florida and 24 other states have reached a $92 million settlement with banking giant JP Morgan Chase over alleged fraudulent conduct involving bid-rigging and anticompetitive actions surrounding municipal bond derivatives, state Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday.
A release from Bondi's office stated that Florida's take in the settlement is currently "undetermined."
Florida and other states have reached similar settlements with Bank of America and Union Bank of Switzerland in the past eight months.
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Florida Republican Congressman Connie Mack, the chairman of the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, turned up the heat on Venezuela this week and called for the Obama administration to include that South American nation on the list of countries that are recognized as state sponsors of terrorism.
