Documents of the Spanish Florida Borderlands: A Calendaring Project at the University of Florida

“The last vestige of institutionalized sexism”? Paternalism, Equal Rights and the Death Penalty in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Sunbelt America: The Case for Florida

“…By 1996, Florida's per capita imprisonment rate was 445 per 100,000 (compared to 350 per 100,000 for the US) and in July 1997 there were 380 people on death row, more than in any other state. 61 Ellsworth and Gross found far higher levels of support for capital punishment in the early 1990s as compared to the early 1970s, less emphasis on deterrence and increased acceptance of retribution as a legitimate reason for that support. 62 Growing support for the retributive principle, that criminals should be paid back for their crimes, and the punishment should fit the crime, provided the context for judicial and public reactions to the cases of Judy Buenoano and Aileen Wuornos.…”