At 3:37pm yesterday, I was preparing a fact sheet for legislators when I received the text message I had been expecting but dreading. It came from a lawyer that our team has worked with several times over the past year, and it read: “Warrant for Melvin Trotter, 02/24.” Over the next few hours before the…

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak to people from all around the state when they traveled to Tallahassee for the Florida Council of Churches’ annual Advocacy Days event. This event centered on “Sowing the Harvest” by connecting community ministries with public policy. It included issue training sessions, an interfaith vigil, and legislative visits…

Ronald “Ronnie” Heath has spent nearly 35 years on Florida’s death row for his role in the 1989 robbery and murder of Michael Sheridan in Alachua County. Ronnie does not dispute his involvement in the crime and has consistently acknowledged responsibility and expressed remorse for the irrevocable harm caused to Mr. Sheridan and Mr. Sheridan’s…