Opinion
Case No. SC05-136.
August 17, 2005.
Lower Tribunal No. 81-219.
In light of the United States Supreme Court's decision inRoper v. Simmons, 125 S.Ct. 1183 (2005), holding the death penalty unconstitutional for individuals who were under eighteen years of age at the time of their capital crimes, this Court vacates the death sentence in this case. The case is remanded to the circuit court for imposition of a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for twenty-five years, in accordance with section 775.082(1), Florida Statutes (1979).
PARIENTE, C.J., and WELLS, ANSTEAD, LEWIS, QUINCE and BELL, JJ., concur.
CANTERO, J., dissents.