Lauren Book is in bed with DeathSantis again: Book helps pass death penalty without a unanimous jury

 Even if you support the idea of the death penalty, I would hope you at least recognize the need for, at the bare minimum, a unanimous jury verdict for the death penalty. FloriDUH is #1 in number of former death row inmates who have been found innocent. So, if we've had this many exonerations and declarations of innownce while the death penalty was limited to unanimous jury verdicts, imagine how much worse it will be when FloriDUH allows the death penalty with only a majority of eight jurors, especially now that the state passed a law to allow the death penalty for non-murder offenses. Once again, Lauren Book supported the Ron DeathSantis agenda and going against her own party. 

Of the 10 NO votes, 8 were by the Dems (one, Powell, did not vote that day but later
voted NO. Jason Pizzo was the other Senate Dem who voted YES.)

All that's missing here is GEO Group's blood money

The BOOK of Death: Lauren Book's public policies center around the deaths of human beings

Am I the only one who thinks that FloriDUH State Senator Lauren Book is obsessed with death?

Just this year --

Lauren Book is pushing for an assisted suicide bill.

Lauren Book is pushing to expand the death penalty to cases not involving murder in direct violation of the US Constitution. 

And, Lauren Book is throwing Hail Mary passes in a desperate attempt to reinstate abortions in FloriDUH, including this petty passive-aggressive amendment:

"This act may be cited to as the “Electrical Activity that can be Manipulated to Sound like a Heartbeat through Ultrasound Protection at the Expense of Pregnant People’s Health and Wellbeing Act.”

Now, I understand that Bimbo Book is not a scientist, nor is she good at being truthful. So I'm not shocked she'd say something this stupid. After all, she conjured an gang abuse narrative out of thin air in last year's attempt to stop an abortion ban. 

Ron DeSantis is often called "DeathSantis" so Book needs a similar nickname because her agenda is murdering human beings. I can envision her sitting in a room watching a person die with a smile on her face. Book is a PSYCHOPATH and should be in a mental institution along with the rest of her mentally ill family.

Lauren Book gives an interview in support of her agenda. 

FloriDUH State Senator Lauren Book is a potential DEATH-Santis ally in allowing death penalty cases

 I see Lauren Book is still expoloiting the Stoneman Douglas shooting victims for cheap publicity despite stabbing them in the back. It does not surprise me the woman who is okay with abortion also wants to make it easier to have people executed, so once again we see the inept Democrat "leader" siding with Ron De(ath)Santis. 

I guess now Bimbo Book needs a fitting death-related nickname. She LOVES destroying human life. 

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/583056-could-there-be-bipartisan-support-for-changes-to-floridas-death-penalty-laws/

Bimbo Book seen here illustrating how
much she REALLY cares about the
Parkland shooting victims

Could there be bipartisan support for changes to Florida’s death penalty laws?

Christine Jordan Sexton

January 23, 2023

'If ever there was a person who deserved the death penalty, Nikolas Cruz is that person.'

Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wants to scrap the requirement that a jury must unanimously recommend the death penalty before a judge can impose it. And the Governor’s suggestion could have bipartisan support.

Democratic leaders of the House and Senate took different positions on the issue, with House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell standing firmly behind the current requirement that a jury verdict be unanimous. Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book, meanwhile, called it a “tough issue.”

“When you are looking at the possibility of the ultimate punishment, putting someone to death, you have to make sure that you get it right. And Florida leads the nation in exonerations, meaning that we lead the nation in getting it wrong,” Driskell said.

According to the Death Policy Information Center Florida, has 30 exonerations, more than any other state. More than 56% of the exonerations involved Black defendants. Driskell said the requirement that a jury verdict be unanimous eliminates accountability.

Book, who is from Broward County, said intellectually she agreed with Driskell. But Book said it’s a tough issue in Broward County, where a jury last summer could not agree on recommending the death penalty for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas gunman. He wound up getting sentenced to life in prison. Lawyers argued the shooter, who killed 17 people and injured 17 others, was a fetal alcohol baby who was misdiagnosed.

Book called the jury’s decision in the sentencing phase a “gross miscarriage of justice.”

“If ever there was a person who deserved the death penalty, Nikolas Cruz is that person,” Book said. “I know that there will be robust debate and I know there are people who fall on different pieces and parts of the continuum within our caucus. But I do believe that we get it wrong. And it has to be right. I think that this is one that we are going to debate and it’s a tough one. It’s a tough one for Broward County.”

Florida was one of the last states that did not require a unanimous recommendation for the death penalty. In the wake of court decisions, legislators initially changed the law to require that 10 out of 12 jurors must recommend the death penalty. Lawmakers then changed the standard to require unanimity after a state Supreme Court ruling mandated unanimity.

But after DeSantis shifted the court rightward with new appointments, the court reversed its 2016 decision and said a unanimous recommendation was not needed, opening the door for another update.

DeSantis on Monday did not say what the unanimous vote should be replaced with, other than a “supermajority.”

“We can’t be in a situation where one person can just derail this,” DeSantis said at the Florida Sheriff Association’s winter meeting in St. Johns County.