Anne GeggisJune 9, 2023
4min0
The Governor signed the relief measure.
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Anne GeggisJune 9, 2023
Jesse SchecknerFebruary 14, 2023
9min0
In passing just one committee, the bill is already more successful than any of its prior iterations.
Associated PressOctober 10, 2021
6min1261
DNA evidence proved his innocense in the rape and murder of Barbara Grams.
Jesse SchecknerSeptember 17, 202115min2080
'We took his life, liberty, everything. He’s got nothing, and it’s our fault.'
Ryan NicolFebruary 11, 2019
5min1145
Brandes is reviving the measure after it failed in 2018.
Guest AuthorSeptember 4, 2018
5min724
Former police officers in Biscayne Park, a small suburb north of Miami, are charged with framing innocent people in an effort to boost the department’s crime-solving record. Raimundo Atesiano, the police chief who resigned in 2014, allegedly directed his force to pin unsolved crimes on random black people in the community. False confessions played a […]
Jim RosicaAugust 16, 2018
5min715
Incarceration isn’t supposed to be a birthright, but it’s as though it has become one for Alan Crotzer. The St. Petersburg native became a cause célèbre when, in January 2006, DNA evidence led to his exoneration of robbery and rape charges after 24 years in prison. Now, records show Crotzer — who had moved to Tallahassee after leaving prison […]
Martin DyckmanMay 21, 20157min267
Of all the differences between the major parties, one is particularly confounding. Why should Republicans appear to be nearly twice as bloodthirsty as Democrats? According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, overall support for the death penalty has fallen to 56 percent, down six points since 2011 and by 22 since 1996 when 78 […]
Martin DyckmanApril 28, 20158min172
Once again, Florida leads the nation in a sobering statistic. At least 42 of its people have gone to prison, including one who was executed and as many as nine who remain on death row, after trials in which FBI “experts” gave testimony that the agency concedes to have been unscientific. No other state comes […]