4/5/23 Florida Supreme Court Oral Arguments: Thomas Bevel v. State of Florida SC2022-0210

Bevel was convicted of the first-degree murders of 13-year-old Phillip Sims and his father, Garrick Stringfield, who were fatally shot in 2004. The jury voted to recommend death sentences for both murders, and the trial court sentenced him to death. This Court affirmed the sentences on direct appeal. In Bevel’s postconviction appeal, this Court vacated his death sentences and remanded the case for a new penalty phase proceeding. In December 2021, the jury voted unanimously to sentence Bevel to death on both charges. The trial court sentenced him to death, and this appeal followed.