06 September 2017 :

In one in a series of similar rulings this year, the Florida Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing proceeding for William Gregory, a death row inmate convicted in 2011 of killing his former girlfriend and a man in 2007 in Flagler County. Justices upheld the 1st-degree murder convictions of Gregory in the deaths of Skyler Dawn Meekins and Daniel Arthur Dyer. A circuit judge sentenced Gregory to death after a jury recommended by 7-5 votes that he face the death penalty. But the Florida Supreme Court, in a 5-2 opinion Thursday, vacated Gregory's sentences because of a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case known as Hurst v. Florida and a subsequent Florida Supreme Court decision.