USA - Florida. Judge Anthony Tatti resentence Michael Bargo to death

16 September 2019 :

Circuit Judge Anthony Tatti on Thursday agreed with a second jury's capital punishment recommendation and resentence Michael Bargo to death in the slaying of a 15-year-old boy. Bargo, now 27, was first sentenced to death in 2013 for the 2011 killing of Seath Jackson. The original jury reached the recommendation for death in a 10-2 vote but in 2016, the Florida Supreme Court ruled juries must be unanimous in recommending the death penalty. As a result, the court ordered resentencing for people on death row who did not receive a unanimous jury recommendation. During Bargo's resentencing in April a jury unanimously recommended the death sentence. On Thursday, the judge officially handed down Bargo's death sentence. In 2011, Bargo and 4 friends lured Jackson to a home in Summerfield, where Bargo shot the 15-year-old multiple times. Bargo's 4 co-defendants were each convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Bargo is the youngest person on Florida's death row.

 

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