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  Winthrop Rocekfeller, brother of NY Governor and 41st Vice President of the United States Nelson Rocekfeller, was the governor of Arkansas...

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: DEATH IS DIFFERENT ....... On Thursday, Florida executed Edward Zakrkewski, age 60, for killing his wife and his two ch...

 Fresh on the heels of two Miami Dade juries choosing life for two men previously convicted of two senseless homicides last Friday, Presiden...

Correction- we updated the post to reflect that it was Judge Delancey and not Judge Brinkley who provided over this mess.  BREAKING: THE STA...

 This week we saw Nicholas Cruz, the infamous school shooter who killed seventeen people- children and teachers, and shot an additional seve...

UPDATE: Nikolas Cruz pled guilty to seventeen counts of first degree murder in the Parkland school shooting case. The case will now proceed...

@Davidovalle305 has done a superb job detailing the arrest and prosecution of South Florida's notorious " pillowcase rapist" ....

UPDATE: The best federal blog in the business looks at Judge Altman's remand at sentencing policy and discusses something we missed: th...

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: THE DEATH PENALTY IS "ALIVE" AND WELL IN OUR GREAT STATE OF FLORIDA  ........ For those of you that have...

According to the Herald, the costs of defending a death penalty defense in Miami are high and it takes a real long time for the cases to go ...

BLOG RUCKUS UPDATE:  We received an email from the attorney who we were upset with ( it took a few days). He apologized for the contretemps...

Judge Milton Hirsch, fresh off a well deserved re-election, declared Florida's Death Penalty Statute (Motto: " Send em all to death...

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: HOUSE BILL 7101  - FLORIDA'S NEW DEATH PENALTY STATUTE The Florida Legislature wrangled over several drafts of...

The United States Supreme Court found Florida's death penalty statute unconstitutional in Hurst v. Florida .   But the court dropped th...

This exchange before the US Supreme Court yesterday may just have killed Florida's Death Penalty Statute JUSTICE BREYER:  Suppose tha...

Imagine getting stopped for speeding. Imagine a rude cop (we know, it's hard, but try). Imagine telling the officer you weren't spee...

A Louisiana Prosecutor who put an innocent man on death row says the system is broken.  The Huffington Post has the f ull story here.  Th...

"Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return" (Genesis 3:19) THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: FLORIDA RELEASES 24 INMATES FROM D...

Execution:  Florida executed another inmate Tuesday.  William Happ was executed for the 1986 murder of a young woman he met by happenstance...

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: TO KILL OR NOT TO KILL; THAT IS THE QUESTION. UPDATE: Authorities said 59-year-old Larry Eugene Mann was pronoun...