{"id":343424,"date":"2026-07-17T13:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343424\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:53:07","slug":"how-florida-prosecutors-decide-when-to-seek-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343424\/","title":{"rendered":"How Florida Prosecutors Decide When to Seek Death Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida has carried out 10 executions so far this year which is more than all other states combined. The state is also preparing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfpublic.org\/politics\/2026-07-13\/is-there-such-a-thing-as-being-too-old-to-execute-aging-death-row-inmates-are-set-to-die-in-florida\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">execute inmates in their 70s and 80s<\/a> who have spent decades on death row.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, prosecutors are pursuing the death penalty in some non-murder cases under changes to state law, including the case of a Sanford man charged with dozens of child sex crimes.<\/p>\n<p>State Attorney William Scheiner of <a href=\"https:\/\/sa18.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida&#8217;s 18th Judicial Circuit<\/a> joins Engage to discuss how prosecutors decide whether to seek the death penalty.<br \/>Maria DeLiberato, policy director for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fadp.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty<\/a>, talks about the organization&#8217;s concerns about transparency and Florida&#8217;s use of capital punishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida has carried out 10 executions so far this year which is more than all other states combined.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-343424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}