Today, FADP delivered nearly 6,000 petition signatures in person to Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Board of Executive Clemency on behalf of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP), Death Penalty Action (DPA), and Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN), urging them to stop Kayle Bates’ execution. The petitions demand that Governor DeSantis use his…

Tomorrow evening at 6 pm ET, the State of Florida plans to execute Kayle Bates (Maud Dib Al Sharif Qu’un). Kayle is a 67-year-old Black Muslim veteran who has endured more than 42 years on death row. His execution reveals the broken state of Florida’s capital punishment system: Kayle was unconstitutionally setenced to death by…

Tallahassee, FL – On Wednesday, August 13, 2025, a delegation of veterans gathered to issue a plea to Governor Ron DeSantis to stop executing veterans. They presented a letter to the Governor’s office, signed by 165 veterans representing more than 1400 years of service in nearly every branch of the U.S. Armed Services. The letter…