10 May 2017 :

The Florida Supreme Court has issued three more decisions on cases raising issues under Hurst v. Florida or Hurst v. State. It overturned death sentences imposed on James Card and John Lee Hampton after non-unanimous jury recommendations for death in those cases, but upheld the death sentence imposed on Matthew Marshall, whose jury had recommended a life sentence, saying it would not apply Hurst because Marshall's conviction and sentence had been upheld on appeal prior to 2002. The Court based its decision in Hurst v. State on the principles set forth in the U.S. Supreme Court's 2002 decision in Ring v. Arizona and considers the date Ring was decided to be the cutoff point for enforcing Hurst. Card, 69, White, was sentenced to death on January 28, 1982, and resentenced to death on June 21, 1999 in the June 3, 1981 murder of Janis Franklin during a bank robbery. Hampton, 42, Black, was sentenced to death in Pinellas County on Feb. 19, 2010 (see) with a 9-3 vote for the June 10, 2007 rape and murder of Lashonda Renee McKinnes, 25. Marshall, 52, Black, was sentenced to death on December 12, 1989 in the November 1, 1988 murder of his cellmate Jeffrey Henry.