The state of Florida did something on Thursday it hasn’t done since reinstating the death penalty in 1976: Execute a white man for killing a black man.
The fact that Asay is the first white person to be executed in Florida for killing a black person in 40 years isn’t going unnoticed by critics of capital punishment.
“It does make the case even stronger that there’s this disparity gap that exists between black and white ― who gets the death penalty and who gets exonerated,” she said.
The Asay execution marked a couple of other Florida firsts.
It was the state’s first execution in more than 18 months since the Supreme Court ruled the state’s sentencing process was unconstitutionalbecause it gave judges, not juries, too much power in deciding whether to execute an inmate, according to CNN.
The state has since passed a law requiring a unanimous jury recommendation for the death penalty.
Asay was killed via a lethal injection of three drugs, one of which, etomidate, has never been used in an execution, according to WJAX.
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