SINGLETARY, SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

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• Asay v. State, 210 So. 3d 1 (Fla. 2016)
  …minatory fashion, even today. Indeed, as my retirement approaches, I feel compelled to follow other justices who, in the twilight of their judicial careers, determined to no longer “tinker with the machinery of death.” See, e.g., Callins v. Collins, 510 U.S. 1141, 1145, 114 S.Ct. 1127, 127 L.Ed.2d 435 (1994) (Black-mun, J., dissenting). The majority’s decision today leads me to declare that I no longer believe that there is a method of which the State can avail itself to impose the death penalty in a const…
• Glossip v. Gross, 135 S. Ct. 2726 (U.S. 2015)
  …supra. Moreover, racial and gender biases may, unfortunately, reflect deeply rooted community biases (conscious or unconscious), which, despite their legal irrelevance, may affect a jury's evaluation of mitigating evidence, see Callins v. Collins, 510 U.S. 1141, 1153, 114 S.Ct. 1127, 127 L.Ed.2d 435 (1994) (Blackmun, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) ("Perhaps it should not be surprising that the biases and prejudices that infect society generally would influence the determination of who is sentenc…
• Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (U.S. 2008)
  …[*437] rules has raised doubts concerning the constitutionality of capital punishment itself. See Baze v. Rees, 553 U. S. 35, 82-86 (2008) (Stevens, J., concurring in judgment); Furman, supra, at 310-314 (White, J., concurring); Callins v. Collins, 510 U. S. 1141, 1144-1145 (1994) (Blackmun, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari). Our response to this case law, which is still in search of a unifying principle, has been to insist upon confining the instances in which capital punishment may be imposed. See…