Eric Scott Branch, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee. Eric Scott Branch, Petitioner, v. Julie L. Jones

Summary

The court affirmed the summary denial of Branch's second successive postconviction motion and denied his successive habeas petition and motion to stay execution. It held that Branch's challenge to execution based on his age of twenty-one was procedurally barred and meritless because the constitutional death-penalty age threshold remains eighteen, that nearly twenty-four years on death row did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment, and that his challenges to the prior violent-felony aggravator were procedurally barred and alternatively harmless. No separate opinions were filed.