Friends, For those of you I have not yet had the privilege of meeting, hello! My name is Grace Hanna, and I’m writing today to introduce myself as the new (as of ~72 hours ago) Executive Director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. I have been involved in this organization for several years,…

U.S. Army Veteran Richard Randolph (Malik Abdul-Sajjad) is scheduled to be executed in Florida on November 20, 2025, at 6 p.m. for the 1988 murder of Minnie Ruth McCollum. He has spent more than three decades on Florida’s death row.  If carried out, his execution will be the 17th in Florida this year, the most…

Since I took over as Executive Director in June of 2022, I have overseen 22 executions, which includes the most by any Florida governor in a single year, and the fastest pace ever in Florida history. 22 times I have written or spoken this phrase, “We the people of the State of Florida executed…” I…