id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_dk5ewev6pzhhrn62udt6fpq3zi Brian K Cooke Revisiting the Decision of Death in Hurst v. Florida 2016 8 .pdf application/pdf 6317 420 63 The United States Supreme Court has considered the question of whether a judge or a jury must make the findings requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a sentence of death in light of Ring. Amendment requires a jury to find the aggravating factors necessary for imposing the death penalty. requires a jury to find the aggravating factors necessary for imposing a death sentence. life imprisonment or death."6 After a nonjury hearing, as provided by Florida law, the judge sentenced the court rejected Mr. Hurst's claim that the Apprendi rule applied to Florida's capital sentencing These judicial findings are necessary to impose a death sentence in Florida, despite two separate jury proceedings and an that they allow a sentencing judge to find an aggravating circumstance, independent of the jury's factfinding, that is necessary for imposition of the death ./cache/work_dk5ewev6pzhhrn62udt6fpq3zi.pdf ./txt/work_dk5ewev6pzhhrn62udt6fpq3zi.txt