While a forthcoming bill that has yet to be signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis, its potential passage poses what may be one of the seminal achievements of his administration. However, it also poses what may be the next great constitutional argument to be fought on the floor of the Supreme Court of the United States. Florida lawmakers in both chambers of the state's legislature have advanced respective bills that would make child molesters eligible for the death penalty.

Last week, Senate Bill 1342 cleared the Florida Senate Rules Committee by a unanimous vote to advance an expansion of the applicability of the death penalty under state law. The senate bill would allow any defendant found guilty of committing sexual battery on a child under twelve years old to be put to death based on a two-thirds vote of the jury convicting them. That means that if eight of the twelve jurors decide to apply the death penalty, the convicted child molester will be sent to death row. The senate proposal was drafted through the partisan cooperation of democratic Senator Lauren Brook and her republican counterpart Jonathan Martin.