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Florida death penalty facts

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381: Number of inmates currently listed on death row. This includes those who have been granted new sentencing hearings.

Number of inmates executed since 1976. Three were sent to death row from Broward County. Two from Palm Beach County. Twelve from Miami-Dade County.

Age of the youngest inmates executed in Florida, in 1941 and 1944. Since 1976, the youngest inmate executed was Arthur Goode of Lee County, put to death on April 5, 1984 at the age of 30 years and 8 days.

The number of killers sentenced to death in Florida in 2016. The number is the lowest since the death penalty became legal again in Florida in 1976. The death penalty process was declared unconstitu­tional in January 2016. A new law was enacted in March 2016. One inmate was sentenced to death under the new law in May in St. Lucie County. A second was sentenced in June in Pinellas County. The March 2016 law was declared unconstitu­tional in October.

The number of women currently on death row. Since executions resumed in 1979, two women have been executed: Judias Goodyear Buenoano in 1998, and Aileen Wuornos in 2002. Death row inmates who were later exonerated.

Number of years since James Rose, still awaiting execution, was first sentenced to death. It will be 40 years on May 15, 2017. Rose, 61, is Florida death row’s longest serving inmate.

The age of Florida’s oldest death row inmate, Nelson Serrano, sentenced in Polk County in 2007. The youngest is Michael Bargo, of Marion County, sentenced in 2013. Bargo will turn 25 on April 29, 2017. Sources: Florida Department of Correction­s, Sun Sentinel, and the Death Penalty Informatio­n Center

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