Interesting story out of FL:
Here's a link to the article from npr:
http://ift.tt/2oSZWTM
Scott used executive orders to reassign the cases, which Ayala will seemingly fight in court. The npr article states that Ayala "did not did not campaign on capital punishment but after taking office said she had determined through research that pursuing the death penalty 'is not in the best interest of this community or the best interest of justice.'" To me, this is an important point. Would she have won the election if she had said that she would not seek the death penalty in any murder case? I believe FL has traditionally been a state which has a large number of people on death row compared to other states.
However, she is the elected prosecutor and has the power to pursue the charges she chooses. The Governor on the other hand, can seek to change that through executive order. I'm guessing this will take a while to play out in court.
It's interesting to me because I can't remember any previous examples of this kind of controversy.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott is removing Orlando's chief prosecutor from a number of murder cases in an ongoing dispute over the death penalty. Through executive order, the Republican governor is reassigning 21 first-degree murder cases from State Attorney Aramis Ayala to a prosecutor who handles a different judicial circuit. Ayala, a Democrat, is the first black elected prosecutor in Florida, and has said she will not seek the death penalty in Orange and Osceola counties, one of the largest judicial circuits in the state. |
http://ift.tt/2oSZWTM
Scott used executive orders to reassign the cases, which Ayala will seemingly fight in court. The npr article states that Ayala "did not did not campaign on capital punishment but after taking office said she had determined through research that pursuing the death penalty 'is not in the best interest of this community or the best interest of justice.'" To me, this is an important point. Would she have won the election if she had said that she would not seek the death penalty in any murder case? I believe FL has traditionally been a state which has a large number of people on death row compared to other states.
However, she is the elected prosecutor and has the power to pursue the charges she chooses. The Governor on the other hand, can seek to change that through executive order. I'm guessing this will take a while to play out in court.
It's interesting to me because I can't remember any previous examples of this kind of controversy.
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