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Today on Context Florida: Death penalty inconsistency, David Jolly, drug abuse, campaign insanity and insurance fraud

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Today on Context Florida: In a U.S. Supreme Court dissent last year, Martin Dyckman notes, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that it’s time to abolish capital punishment death penalty. The whole notion is riddled with too many inconsistencies for a civil society, Breyer said. At the time, only Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed. Every year, about 1,000 people go to Florida prisons for various degrees of homicide. Last year, only nine of them went to death row. U.S. Rep. David Jolly pulls…

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Dave Aronberg racks up another sheriff’s endorsement

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From Dave Aronberg’s Campaign: When we first started this effort, we had hoped that a select group of Sheriffs would stand with us. Based on my longstanding commitment to public safety and my experience in the Senate fighting gangs and prescription drug abuse, we believed we had a good chance. To earn the endorsements of a dozen currently serving Sheriffs is, frankly, beyond our highest expectations. To sweep every single Democratic Sheriff endorsement in this race is extremely gratifying and…

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From Dave Aronberg’s Campaign: When we first started this effort, we had hoped that a select group of Sheriffs would stand with us. Based on my longstanding commitment to public safety and my experience in the Senate fighting gangs and prescription drug abuse, we believed we had a good chance. To earn the endorsements of a dozen currently serving Sheriffs is, frankly, beyond our highest expectations. To sweep every single Democratic Sheriff endorsement in this race is extremely gratifying and…

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