Available for convenient bundling with any wadsworth criminal law text or for purchase as a stand alone item this state specific guide assists students in their exploration of florida laws and cases and features chapter introductions overviews of codes and implications and exercises for florida specific penal codes. Available for convenient bundling with any wadsworth criminal law text or for purchase as a stand alone item this state specific guide assists students in their exploration of florida laws and cases and features chapter introductions overviews of codes and implications and exercises for florida specific penal codes. The florida criminal legal system has a lot of moving parts and changing laws and can therefore be hard to understand in this guide learn about what constitutes a crime in florida how crimes are sentenced and how the criminal court system works in florida in addition learn about how florida cases such as the george zimmerman trayvon martin case propelled national laws. Florida law does recognize capital punishment defendants who face capital charges can be sentenced to death in the state of florida these offenses are often considered the most heinous and include such crimes as murder and capital drug trafficking a criminal defendant can be sentenced to lethal injection or electrocution. Florida state laws include rape under the offense of sexual battery to prove a rape offense a prosecutor must establish each of the elements for sexual battery if the rape victim is under the age of twelve the prosecutor does not have to show the victims lack of consent florida first degree murder laws