Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Thursday that will no longer require juries agree unanimously to recommend death sentences, reducing the number of jurors need to recommend a death sentence to the lowest threshold of any state with capital punishment.
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Florida has more death-row exonerees than any other state. But the state just passed a law allowing nonunanimous juries to recommend the death penalty.
A group of 25 migrants came ashore in the 700 block of Seabreeze Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday, Fort Lauderdale Police said.
The U.S. Coast Guard repatriated 273 migrants to Matanzas, Cuba, over the weekend following interdictions off the Florida Keys. While more than 4,400 migrants from Cuba and Haiti have made their way by boat to the state since August, more than 700 migrants arrived in the Florida Keys over New…