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   (Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a bill on   
   Friday allowing juries to recommend the death penalty in capital cases on   
   an 8-4 vote, a move spurred by the less-than-unanimous vote that led to   
   the Parkland school shooter being sentenced to life in prison.   
      
   The state's Republican-led House of Representatives approved the measure   
   with an 80-30 vote on Thursday, following the Republican-controlled state   
   Senate's approval in March.   
      
   If the Republican governor signs the bill into law, Florida prosecutors   
   trying capital felony cases would need to convince only two-thirds of the   
   12-member jury that someone who is convicted deserves the death penalty,   
   rather than a unanimous decision by a jury.   
      
   The change only affects the penalty phase of capital trials. It would have   
   no effect on the requirement for a jury's unanimous vote to convict a   
   defendant.   
      
   DeSantis has pushed for the legislation since October when he said he was   
   "very disappointed" after a jury could not come to a unanimous decision on   
   giving a death sentence to Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at Marjory   
   Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 2018.   
      
   Three jurors voted to spare Cruz, and by default his sentence was life in   
   prison without the possibility of parole, according to the Death Penalty   
   Information Center.   
      
   If the bill becomes law, Florida would join Alabama as the only states   
   where a unanimous jury decision is not required, the center noted.   
      
   Tony Montalto, whose daughter Gina was killed in the Parkland shooting,   
   has been pushing for Florida lawmakers to change the jury requirement.   
      
   "Because of the jury's incorrect decision ... the victims, my beautiful   
   daughter, her 13 classmates and her three teachers did not get the justice   
   that they deserve," Montalto said during an interview on WPLG, an ABC   
   affiliate in South Florida, in March.   
      
   DeSantis, widely thought to be weighing a 2024 presidential campaign, has   
   accelerated efforts to build his national profile, especially around crime   
   and justice issues. In February, he traveled to New York, Chicago and   
   Philadelphia to speak to law enforcement groups on criminal justice   
   matters.   
      
   Legal and ethical questions have swirled around capital punishment in the   
   United States in recent years as states have found it difficult to procure   
   drugs to carry out the death penalty through lethal injections. Several   
   executions have been botched in recent years.   
      
   In 2017, Florida passed a law that required death penalties to be imposed   
   only after a unanimous recommendation by a jury.   
      
   The law came after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an earlier state   
   law, saying it unconstitutionally let judges determine the facts that   
   would lead to a death sentence, rather than juries.   
      
      
      
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