FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 3, 2017 CONTACT: Mark Elliott, FADP Director, (727) 215-9646, [email protected] TAMPA, FL – On Thursday, October 5th, Michael Lambrix is scheduled to be executed after spending 33 years on Death Row. Since Florida restarted executions, 93 people have been executed under Florida’s flawed death penalty law while 27 innocent people on…
Release of Florida’s 27th Exonerated Death Row Survivor Highlights Fatal Flaws In Death Penalty System
RAIFORD, FLORIDA – After three years spent on Florida’s Death Row for a crime he did not commit, former Air Force Sergeant, Ralph Wright, Jr. has been freed. His release today makes him Florida’s 27th exonerated death row survivor, and the 159th person exonerated from death row in the United States since 1973, according to the Death Penalty…
Orlando Sentinel Commentary: 21-year-old political conservative: Why I oppose Florida’s death penalty
The death penalty has proved itself to be a costly, ineffective way of deterring crime in our streets, and it puts innocent lives at risk. There is no reason for Florida conservatives and others to have any faith in this broken government program. If we want a safer and more prosperous Florida, prosecutors need to…