The Window on Death Row Screening & Q+A (Coral Gables)

“I would have been dead today if I hadn’t gone to death row.”

Joaquín José Martínez, the first Spaniard ever exonerated from U.S. death row, was once a supporter of capital punishment until, at 24, he was convicted of a double murder in Florida. He spent more than five years behind bars, three on death row. Two decades after he was exonerated, Joaquín transforms his trauma into advocacy.

The Window on Death Row, a short film, explores urgent questions: What happens when we almost execute an innocent man? Is closure possible for the victims’ families? And how do we reconcile the contradiction that facing a death sentence, even an unjust one, can paradoxically lead to a second chance at life?

Q&A with Pastor Laurie Hafner , Stephan Pineda, community organizer for Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, & Director Linda Freund to follow.