{"id":351980,"date":"2026-07-25T05:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351980\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T05:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:56:15","slug":"calhoun-sentenced-to-death-in-mia-brown-murder-after-florida-death-penalty-law-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351980\/","title":{"rendered":"Calhoun sentenced to death in Mia Brown murder after Florida death penalty law change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HOLMES COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG\/WECP) -A judge has formally sentenced an Esto man to death for the kidnapping and murder of a Holmes County store clerk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Johnny Mack Calhoun was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Mia Brown in 2010. He was originally sentenced to death in 2012, but the case returned to court this spring following changes to Florida\u2019s death penalty procedures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State law now requires at least eight jurors to vote for death before a death recommendation can move forward. After eight days of testimony in April, the jury recommended the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A judge agreed Friday, formally sentencing Calhoun to death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To stay up to date on all the latest news as it develops, follow WJHG on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NEWS7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wjhgtv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WJHG_TV\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WJHG_TV\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Have a news tip or see an error that needs correction? Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhg.com\/2026\/07\/24\/calhoun-sentenced-death-mia-brown-murder-after-florida-death-penalty-law-change\/mailto:news@wjhg.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news@wjhg.com<\/a>. Please include the article\u2019s headline in your message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Keep up with all the biggest headlines on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-news\/id420768788\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-news\/id420768788\" target=\"_blank\">WJHG News app<\/a>, and check out what\u2019s happening outside using the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-weather\/id1358847597\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-weather\/id1358847597\" target=\"_blank\">WJHG Weather app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WJHG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOLMES COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG\/WECP) -A judge has formally sentenced an Esto man to death for the kidnapping and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[143930,28,143929,30,29,143927,143926,143928],"class_list":["post-351980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-esto-florida-murder-conviction","tag-florida","tag-florida-death-penalty-sentencing","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-holmes-county-murder-death-penalty","tag-johnny-mack-calhoun-death-sentence","tag-mia-brown-holmes-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351980","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=351980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}