ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Monique Worrell was sworn in as the new state attorney for Orange County and Osceola County.
Monday night, the outgoing state attorney, Aramis Ayala, decided to drop the death penalty against four defendants in three high profile cases.News 6 spoke with Worrell about what this means for the start of her administration“This is not the beginning that I had hoped for, but I’m not going to stay here I’m not going to be stuck here,” Worrell told News 6.Worrell admits this was not the first day on the job she had anticipated.She said her administration would not be defined by this move.It was one of the last moves Ayala made while still in office--filing notices that her office would not seek the death penalty against four.