Governor clashes with prosecutor on death penalty

Governor clashes with prosecutor on death penalty

World March 17, 2017 06:48

tampa - Gov. Rick Scott of the US state of Florida has replaced a local prosecutor who refused to seek the death penalty in a criminal case. ' She has made it clear that they will not fight for justice, '' Scott concluded on Thursday (local time).

Aramis accuser Ayala said earlier at a press conference that the system around the death penalty in Florida ' creates legal chaos'. They therefore refused to require such punishment against a man suspected of murdering a police officer.

The decision Ayala came on a storm to be criticized. Yet she refused to withdraw. Scott then decided to transfer the case to a prosecutor from another district.

In prisons in the state are currently 382 people as may be sentenced to death. They are in some cases already behind bars for decades, because the appeal could take decades.

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