Jesse SchecknerFebruary 9, 2023
9min0
Leadership in the Legislature ignored prior versions of the bill in 2021 and 2022.
Tag: Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Jesse SchecknerFebruary 9, 2023Jesse SchecknerFebruary 9, 20239min0
Leadership in the Legislature ignored prior versions of the bill in 2021 and 2022.
Associated PressAugust 23, 2017
7min319
For the first time in state history, Florida is expecting to execute a white man Thursday for killing a black person — and it plans to do so with the help of a drug that has never been used before in any U.S. execution. Barring a stay, Mark Asay, 53, is scheduled to die by […]
Mitch PerryJuly 19, 2017
5min1628
Florida death row inmate Ralph Wright Jr. was released from state prison Tuesday, two months after the state Supreme Court exonerated him in the 2007 killings of his ex-girlfriend and their baby boy. The release of the former Air Force Sergeant makes him Florida’s 27th exonerated death row survivor, and the 159th person exonerated from death […]
Jim RosicaDecember 23, 2016
4min226
The state’s leading death penalty opposition group is calling for more than 200 Florida death row inmates to have their sentences reduced to life imprisonment. Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP) says a Florida Supreme Court decision on convicted killer Mark Asay out Thursday means that many are “entitled to be resentenced.” The court […]
Mitch PerryOctober 12, 2016
9min707
(UPDATE) There are just 16 counties in the U.S. — or one half of one percent — that imposed five or more death sentences between 2010 and 2015, and, according to a new report, four of them are in Florida — Hillsborough, Pinellas, Miami-Dade, and Duval. The Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project’s report notes these “outlier counties” are plagued by […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 14, 2016
8min802
Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Florida’s death sentencing system as unconstitutional, a new report says the state’s death penalty is plagued by vast racial, gender and geographic inequities. The report, written by University of North Carolina political science professor Frank Baumgartner, looked at executions carried out in Florida between 1976 and 2014. His […]