Word: wauchula
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...Death Exception. Earl Enmund, now 50, was waiting anxiously at the wheel of the getaway car in 1975 when his accomplices got into a gun battle and killed an elderly couple they were robbing near Wauchula, Fla. His partners might be liable to the death penalty in Florida, but could Enmund be? Because he helped out in the robbery, Florida law held him responsible for the killing by his partners, and he was sentenced to death. His lawyers argued, however, that capital punishment for an accomplice who was not at all involved in the shooting violated the Eighth Amendment...
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