Prosecutors in Florida filed a notice of their intent to seek the death penalty against a mother who is accused of murdering her 7-year-old daughter by stomping her to death because the girl spilled cereal.

Naikishia Williams, 32, is facing charges of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in the April 28 death of Nia Williams in Riviera Beach. She was indicted in June . The state on Monday argued that Williams' alleged actions met the qualifications to seek capital punishment.

Among the aggravators: The murder allegedly was "especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel," and Williams killed her daughter "in a cold, calculated, and premediated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification," prosecutors wrote. Other alleged aggravators were the fact that Nia was under 12

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