Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP) urges Florida's legislators to recognize that the death penalty is bad public policy on economic, moral, and social grounds. FADP calls for a "time-out!" on executions until legislative reforms to Florida's death penalty and criminal justice statutes can be made in order to ensure a fair and accurate legal system. Recent polls show that 66% of Floridians, when asked, support the idea of a "time-out" on executions.

The Constitution Project, a bi-partisan commission that includes Timothy McVeigh's prosecutor, Beth Wilkinson and former FBI Director William Sessions, has released a report making 18 suggestions for reform of the death penalty system. Click here to see the text of that report, entitled "Mandatory Justice: 18 Reforms to the Death Penalty."

Separate and apart from the suggestions for reform made by The Constitution Project, FADP calls on the Florida Legislature and the Governor to pass legislation with the following goals:

• Ending immunity for law enforcement officials who knowingly send an innocent person to prison;

• Establishing a compensation fund for persons wrongly convicted and imprisoned in Florida;

• Requiring a unanimous jury to sentence a convicted murderer to death.

• Raising the minimum age to be eligible for the death penalty to 18 at the time of the crime.

• Extending the deadline for DNA testing and implementing aspects of the Federal Innocence Protection Act

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