citing a flawed defense, a judge has granted a new sentencing hearing...

citing a flawed defense, a judge has granted a new sentencing hearing for the only woman on Florida's death row.
Virginia Larzelere, 52, was sentenced to die for scheming to get at her husband's insurance by hiring her son to gun him down in 1991. A jury split 7-5 in favor of the death penalty.
Volusia Circuit Judge John Watson, who presided over the mother's 1992 trial, released an order saying her lawyers did not present important evidence during the original penalty phase.
Watson concluded her attorneys did not spend enough time preparing for the penalty phase and noted her jury did not hear evidence about her mental health and that she had been sexually abused as a child.