Donald Otis Williams v. State of Florida

Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC2023-1000 ____________ DONALD OTIS WILLIAMS, Appellant, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. July 17, 2025 PER CURIAM. The appellant, Donald Otis Williams, was previously sentenced to death for the 2010 first-degree felony murder of 81-year-old Janet Patrick. Following a new penalty phase proceeding conducted pursuant to Hurst v. State, 1 Williams was again sentenced to death for Patrick’s murder. This is the direct appeal of Williams’s newly imposed death sentence. We have jurisdiction. 1. Hurst v. State,

202 So. 3d 40

(Fla. 2016) (interpreting Hurst v.…