Rodney Renard Newberry v. State of Florida

Summary

The court affirmed Newberry's death sentence after his resentencing for first-degree murder. It rejected challenges to the penalty-phase jury instructions, the trial court's treatment of mitigating evidence, the proportionality of the sentence, and the refusal to extend the prohibition on executing intellectually disabled defendants to persons who are intellectually impaired. The court concluded that the jury instructions were legally sufficient, the findings were supported by competent substantial evidence, the sentencing order adequately addressed mitigation, and the sentence was proportionate.