Pinkney Carter was granted a resentencing trial after a 2017 ruling by the Florida Supreme Court prompted the Florida Legislature to change how the death penalty could be applied, requiring a death sentence be a unanimous decision by a jury and not just a majority, as it had been at the time of Carter’s conviction. Carter admitted to shooting and killing Liz Reed, his former fiancee, her 16-year-old daughter Courtney Smith and Reed’s new boyfriend, Glenn Pafford in 2002. Smith was shot in the head with one bullet. She died two days later at the hospital. Reed had two gunshot wounds to her head. She died in the living room. Pafford, who was the store manager at the grocery store where Reed and her two oldest children worked, had three gunshot wounds to the head. One of them was fired at point-blank range after he had fallen to the floor.