FL S0664

Requires death penalty recommendations in capital felony and capital drug trafficking cases to be based on unanimous jury votes, effective July 1, 2015.

Mandates jury instructions stating that aggravating circumstances must outweigh mitigating circumstances and that each aggravating circumstance must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt by unanimous vote.

Requires courts to provide special verdict forms specifying which aggravating circumstances were found to exist and certifying unanimity on each circumstance found.

Limits courts' consideration of aggravating circumstances to only those unanimously found by the jury, rather than allowing judges to independently identify additional circumstances.

Changes the burden framework from requiring sufficient mitigating circumstances to outweigh aggravating circumstances to requiring aggravating circumstances to outweigh mitigating circumstances.