The Florida Supreme Court said Thursday that some death-row prisoners there may be able to seek new sentences, a decision that could impact hundreds of inmates and ends months of uncertainty surrounding capital punishment in one of the country’s leading death penalty states.
While the court’s ruling means that many inmates could potentially avoid execution, many others on the state’s death row — the second-largest in the country, trailing only California — were deemed ineligible for this resentencing in a separate ruling Thursday.
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