The Supreme Court of Florida confirms Mark Wilson's death sentences

This afternoon, the Florida Supreme Court issued a decision as part of its regular opinion public Wilson v. State To confirm Mark Wilson's convictions for the first degree murder and death sentences.

Wilson was condemned to have killed his girlfriend's nephews (12 and 14 years old) in autumn 2020. After the unanimous recommendation of the jury for death after Florida's earlier capital conviction, the court sentenced Wilson to death in both cases.

Wilson raised the following claims: (a) “The court wrongly allowed the jury to take the KPCP agravator into account.” (B) “The court was wrongly rejected, the proposed evidence that Wilson was intoxicated by methamphetamine at the time of the Murders. The court wrongly rejected it to give a special jury statement that indicates that a lifelong judgment is practically excluded from the prison” (e) be a rejection with mitigating circumstances [related to sympathy] And that the jury's instructions that their decision are not based on the fact that they are sorry for someone or are angry with anyone. ” Lawrence against the state308 Sun. 3D 544 (Fla. 2020), (i) “Florida's death penalty scheme limits the class of people who are eligible for the death penalty, not with the eighth amendment”, (J) “Death qualification of a jury is unconstitutional” and (k) “The death penalty is not answerable.”

Justice Labarga agreed to write: