We face uncertainty together For my fellow Floridians, as we spent this week preparing for Hurricane Idalia, I couldn’t help but draw parallels between the randomness of the weather and the arbitrariness of the death penalty. As we all watched the shifting weather predictions and the “cone of uncertainty” on landfall, we all hoped for…

A childhood of unimaginable horror I have to be honest, every time I write to you that there is another execution scheduled, it breaks my soul a little more. It has been a brutal year of state-sponsored killing, and Michael Zack is slated to be Florida’s next premeditated murder. His execution is set for October…

When the State of Florida killed James Barnes tonight, his execution sadly sealed what James experienced from his first breath to his last – rejection, isolation, and the belief that his life did not matter. Tonight the State of Florida helped James end his life, after he waived all appeals and volunteered for execution. Whether…