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Darlene Farah lost her daughter when she was gunned down more than two years ago in a Jacksonville  cell phone store. Now she’s walking the hallways of the state Capitol on behalf of other murder victims families, asking lawmakers to do away with the death penalty. Her argument: overtime the case come up, she has to relive the horror of her daughters death.

Sot: Darlene Farah

Murder Victims Families

“I have to worry about the conviction being overturned. Take that money and use it for something else. Rehabilitate those people, the first time offenders who go to jail and come back out that are convicted felons and can’t get jobs. Use that money for something else.”

Florida’s death penalty sentencing was declared unconstitutional in January. Lawmakers will take up a compromise bill Thursday that would require a 10-2 jury verdict for a death sentence.