Robert Craft v. State of Florida

Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC19-953 ____________ ROBERT CRAFT, Appellant, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. November 19, 2020 PER CURIAM. Robert Craft appeals his conviction for first-degree murder and his sentence of death. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. For the reasons below, we affirm Craft’s conviction and sentence of death. I. BACKGROUND On May 16, 2018, Craft strangled and beat to death Darren W. Shira in the cell they shared at Columbia Correctional Institution. Following Shira’s murder, Craft confessed multiple times, including in two recorded…