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Florida’s Supreme Court has upheld a state law allowing nonunanimous juries to sentence people to death. The decision cements Florida’s status of having the lowest bar in the country for death sentences, at a time when the state is driving a national increase in executions. The state Supreme Court affirmed a 2023 law that ended a unanimous jury requirement in death penalty sentencing. Florida law allows capital punishment with a jury recommendation of at least 8-4 in favor of execution.