USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court has thrown out the conviction and death sentence of Randall Deviney, 23, white

The Florida Supreme Court has thrown out the conviction and death sentence of Randall Deviney, 23, white, saying police who questioned him did not honor his constitutional right to remain silent. Deviney was convicted of slitting the throat of Dolores Futrell, 65, in August 2008 in her home and sentenced to death in 2010 (see March 18, 2010 and June 11, 2010). Attorneys for Deviney, who was 19 at the time of the crime, argued that when police first questioned him, he became upset and told them multiple times that he was done speaking. Police ignored those comments and kept questioning him, and Deviney eventually confessed to killing Futrell. That videotaped confession was shown to jurors at trial. Under the law an interrogation must stop if a suspect invokes his right to remain silent, the Florida Supreme Court said in its unanimous ruling, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's Miranda ruling.