Florida still executes the mentally ill. This bill would stop that.
A Tampa Bay public defender and lawmaker teamed up to draft Senate Bill 1156, which would bar the death sentence for those with severe mental illnesses.
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This 2017 Florida Department of Corrections photo shows the gurney used to execute death row inmates via lethal injection at Florida State Prison at Starke.
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One man, convicted of killing two court bailiffs in Orange County, suffered from delusions that he was Jesus Christ. Another man with a long history of paranoid schizophrenia murdered eight people in South Florida. He believed he was the prince of God.
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Conrad Hernandez cracked a joke, something about giving his extra pounds to a teeny tiny family member.
He was talking to his mother on the phone on his way home to Parrish from work, stuck in rush-hour traffic as he crawled south over the Howard Frankland Bridge. Hernandez was always cracking jokes, turning waits at the airport or nights watching âJeopardy!â into comedy routines, family and friends said.
But on that Dec. 17 day, shortly after 6 p.m., there were no more jokes.
Suddenly, Rosa Hernandez couldnât hear her son over the phone. Instead, she heard some kind of âbig noise,â she said, hard to describe even a month later.