The Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the state's death penalty violates the Sixth Amendment and is unconstitutional.

The state court's decision followed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from earlier this year in which the justices struck down a Florida death penalty law because it allowed judges to assign the punishment independent of a jury's sentencing recommendation.

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The 148-page Delaware ruling cited that Supreme Court decision, concluding that its state law infringed on the role of juries. The Delaware court struck down the death penalty in the state and said it could only be reinstated by the General Assembly, according to Delaware Online.

"The proposition that any defendant should go to his death without a jury of his peers deciding that should happen would have been alien to the Founders," wrote Delaware Chief Justice Leo E. Strine in the majority ruling.

"I join with a majority of my colleagues in concluding that Delaware‘s current death penalty statute conflicts with the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution."

Delaware was one of 32 states with capital punishment and one of only two that allowed a judge to override a jury's recommendation of a life sentence, according to the report.

Updated at 4:34 p.m.