The Florida House of Representative has passed the Hurst fix bill, HB 7101, by a vote of 93-20.  To fix the immediate problem, the bill would require the jury in a capital case to find at least one aggravating circumstance unanimously for the case to be death-eligible.  The bill goes on to require at least a 10-2 vote for the defendant to actually be sentenced to death.

The Senate bill is a single-juror veto bill, misrepresented as a jury unanimity bill.  Press reports indicate that the 10-2 vote, up from 9-3 in the earlier House bill and up from simple majority under current law, is an agreed-upon compromise between the houses.  Steve Bousquet had this story in the Tampa Bay Times yesterday.

See also my prior post.