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The State Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday afternoon that it will seek the death penalty for an Osceola County mother accused of murdering her 3-year-old child. Joanne Zephir, 38, was arrested in May 2022 for stabbing her husband, forcing her 3-year-old and 8-year-old to drink bleach then strangling her youngest child to death, the Ninth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office said. Zephir .
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersWhen Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis finally spoke to a national audience on stage at last week’s Republican presidential debate, he gloated about the way he spitefully sacked two “radical left-wing district attorneys” in his state who “wouldn’t do their job.”What American viewers weren’t told is that, behind the scenes, the governor’s office had quietly conspired with local sheriffs to tarnish the reputations of these democratically e