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• The lockstep provision of article I, section 17 of the Florida Constitution reads as follows:
• The death penalty is an authorized punishment for capital *2082 crimes designated by the legislature. The prohibition against cruel or unusual punishment, and the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, shall be construed in conformity with decisions of the United States Supreme Court which interpret the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment provided in the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Any method of execution shall be allowed, unless prohibited by the United States Constitution.169. Kenneth P. Miller, Defining Rights in the States: Judicial Activism and Popular Response, 76 Alb. L. Rev. 2061, 2081–82 (2013)
• The lockstep provision of article I, section 17 of the Florida Constitution reads as follows: The death penalty is an authorized punishment for capital *2082 crimes designated by the legislature. The prohibition against cruel or unusual punishment, and the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, shall be construed in conformity with decisions of the United States Supreme Court which interpret the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment provided in the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Any method of execution shall be allowed, unless prohibited by the United States Constitution.169. Kenneth P. Miller, Defining Rights in the States: Judicial Activism and Popular Response, 76 Alb. L. Rev. 2061, 2081–82 (2013)

• FLA. STAT. ANN. § 57.085 (West Supp. 2002), 944.279, 944.28 (West 2001); see also FLA. STAT. chs. 68.093 (2002) (vexatious litigants)