Non-Unanimity Increases the Risk of Wrongful Conviction

The vast majority of Florida’s 30 death row exonerees were either sentenced to death by non-unanimous juries or sentenced to death by judges who rejected a jury’s recommendation of a life sentence and imposed death instead.

Annibal Jaramillo (Unanimous for Life)

Anthony Brown (Unanimous for Life)

Robert DuBoise (Unanimous for Life)

Juan Ramos (11-1 for Life)

Rudolph Holton (7-5)

Robert Cox (7-5)

Derral Hodgkins (7-5)

Ralph Wright (7-5)

Carl Dausch (8-4)

Bradley Scott (8-4)

Andrew Golden (8-4)

Herman Lindsey (8-4)

Joseph Green (9-3)

Joseph Brown (9-3)

Anthony Peek (9-3)

Willie Brown (9-3)

Larry Troy (9-3)

Juan Melendez (9-3)

Joaquin Martinez (9-3)

John Ballard (9-3)

Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin (9-3 and 7-5)

Robert Hayes (10-2)

Frank Smith (Unanimous for Death)

Seth Penalver (Unanimous for Death)