FL H0157

Requires advisory death sentences in capital felony and capital drug trafficking cases to be based on unanimous jury vote, effective July 1, 2016.

Mandates that juries be instructed 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 a special verdict form specifying which aggravating circumstances were found and certifying that the vote for each was unanimous.

Limits court's findings on aggravating circumstances to those unanimously found by the jury; court must impose life imprisonment if death sentence findings are not made within 30 days.

Changes statutory language to require that aggravating circumstances found to exist are sufficient to outweigh mitigating circumstances, replacing prior language about insufficient mitigating circumstances.