While the Supreme Court is contemplating reconsidering its position on allowing execution of offenders who commit murder as juveniles, Florida may edit its death penalty law in a fashion that would lower the age for which juvenile offenders can be exeucted from 17 to 16.

"This is because United States Supreme Court rulings upholding the death penalty for 16-year-olds would take precedence over a 1998 ruling by the Florida Supreme Court that declared capital punishment unconstitutional for people under 17."

"Passage of this amendment would restore the death penalty in Florida for 16-year-old offenders," said Stephen Harper, coordinator of the Juvenile Death Penalty Initiative, a coalition seeking to eliminate the death penalty for juveniles. "We see that as a major step back given how other states are dealing with this issue and given how the international community has all but eliminated the death penalty for offenders under 18."

"These critics say voters would have no way of knowing the implications of the change for juvenile offenders from reading the amendment, which makes no mention of it."

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