A Florida jury recommended death for Joseph Zieler in the case of the 1990 murders of 11-year-old Robin Cornell and her 32-year-old Lisa Story.

On Wednesday, May 24 in late night deliberations, jurors voted 10-2 in favor of the death penalty for Zieler for the brutal double-murder nearly 33 years prior.

On May 10, 1990, Jan Cornell, Robin's mother, found her 11-year-old daughter and roommate Story dead in their Cape Coral, Florida home. In the subsequent investigation, police found that the two girls were sexually assaulted and that several items were stolen from the home.

The case went cold for 26 years until Zieler was arrested on unrelated battery charges and DNA evidence led police to connect him with the 1990 slayings. 

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After years of repeated delays, jurors started the long-awaited trial on Tuesday, May 16. Prosecutors showed DNA evidence and Zieler was found guilty on two counts of first-degree murder.

Florida has executed two convicted murderers so far this year, with Zieler now recommended being the third.

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For decades, Florida had not required unanimity in capital punishment. The state previously allowed a judge to impose capital punishment as long as a majority of jurors were in favor of the penalty. But in 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out state law, saying it allowed judges too much discretion.

The state Legislature then passed a bill requiring a 10-2 jury recommendation. But the state Supreme Court said such recommendations should be unanimous, prompting lawmakers in 2017 to require just that.

Three years later, the state Supreme Court, with new conservative jurists appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, rescinded its earlier decision and ruled that a death recommendation does not need to be unanimous.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A 17-year-old boy died last weekend after falling from an iconic bridge in Los Angeles, California and police are saying that the teen was attempting to share his climb up the 6th street bridge via social media.

The teen fell "when climbing upon one of the arches, in order to post, apparently, a social media broadcast," Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said at a Tuesday's meeting of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners. "He slipped and fell to his death."

Moore said that police responded to the fall at the 6th Street Viaduct around 2 a.m. Saturday, May 20 and found the boy, who was pronounced dead at a hospital. 

His name has not been released by police and police did not share what social media platform he was using prior to his fatal fall. 

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"Tragically we see that location, while it has spawned a great deal of pride in Los Angeles, it has also unfortunately served as a backdrop now for tragedies such as this," Moore said. "Our added patrols will continue at that location … to counter such reckless actions."

The bridge first opened in July 2022. The $588-million span, which replaced an 84-year-old Art Deco span, runs 3,500 feet (1,066.80 meters) over the concrete-lined Los Angeles River and connects downtown to the historic Eastside.

The bridge, referred to as the "Ribbon of Light," due to it undulating arches that will be lit with LED lights at night features sidewalks on each side of the viaduct, varying from 8 feet to 14 feet in width and 10-foot wide Class IV protected bike lanes on each side. 

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The bridge features expansive views of LA's skyline and is the largest and most expensive span ever built in the city. It was designed to become a city landmark which "will rival the Hollywood Sign and Griffith Park as iconic images of our city," Council member Kevin de León said at it's opening in July 2022. 

However, since it's opening police have been forced to close the bridge several times after it quickly became a hotspot for street racing, graffiti and illegal takeovers that drew hundreds of spectators to watch drivers perform dangerous stunts in their vehicles.

Social media stunts abounded as well — in one case, a man sat in a barber’s chair for a haircut in the middle of the lanes.

A man was also fatally shot on the bridge in January during unauthorized filming of a music video.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.