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Fmr. Supreme Court justice questions executions Updated: Fmr. Supreme Court justice questions executions TALLAHASSEE – Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty are circulating a video of a former Florida Supreme Court justice who believes the state has executed innocent people. The retired justice also questions the costs. Gerald Kogan spent 11 years on the Florida Supreme Court, the last two as chief justice. “Originally, I believed in the death penalty. I thought it was a proper penalty,” Kogan says in the video. More than two dozen people were executed during Kogan’s time on the court. “Our system is not perfect,” Kogan says. ....
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Gerald Kogan, who died March 4 at 87, was the epitome of a civic leader. He served his Miami-Dade community in various roles in the legal system, culminating in his appointment to state Supreme Court. There, his drive to open the mysterious processes of the judiciary to the public was part of a lifelong commitment to democracy that easily morphed into a passion for ethical government after he left the bench. ....
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Craig Waters Gerald Kogan was an innovator in his time as Florida’s top judge. His death this past Thursday gives us a time to take stock of his amazing legacy as the former head of Florida’s judicial system. As chief justice from 1996 to 1998, Kogan launched Florida s pioneering Access Initiative. It was the most important of several big changes he made. Premised on a belief that everyone should have access to courts, Kogan s initiative was praised as one of the most creative uses of cutting-edge technology in any American state in the 1990s. Many of its elements later became standard practice, though they were new and daring at the time. ....