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This is a 5 page paper discussing the issues regarding capital punishment and the number of executions and death row inmates in the state of Florida. While opponents to the death penalty continue the fight against capital punishment, Florida continues to have one of the highest execution rates and conviction rates in the country despite high costs, botched executions and moral issues.
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executions involving the gallows and then the electric chair, Florida also ranks among the highest states of victims of the death penalty who were later found to be innocent, one
of the highest racially discriminated death row populations in the states and one of the highest annual execution rates in recent years. These issues have opponents to capital punishment continuing
to pursue a reversal of legislation in Florida and throughout the rest of the United States. Unfortunately because of the seemingly high percentage of Americans who have supported the reintroduction
of the death penalty and the elected politicians determined to continue the executions, the fight against capital punishment will continue to be a difficult one.
Since the introduction of the Senate Joint Resolution 124 and House Joint Resolution last year which intended to elevate the Death Penalty to the Florida Constitution, advocates for
the opposition of the Death Penalty have been busy issuing statements reversing the progress of the Death Penalty as Constitution based. Currently under Florida law and the existing Constitution there
are two options available in the state of Florida for first degree murder: a death sentence or life imprisonment without parole (Morris and McCarron 2002). Currently, under Florida legislation,
capital punishment can be applied to the three capital offences of first degree murder, felony murder, and capital drug trafficking and the minimum age to be sentenced to the
death penalty is 16 years old (Snell 2002). In the past ten years on average 250 to 300 death sentences have been handed out in the 38 states which still
carry the death sentence and each year as death sentences continue to be handed out, the controversies continue. In 1999, more Americans were put to death than in any other
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