“Each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done.” Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy. Donald Dillbeck has spent the last three decades on death row atoning for the worst thing he has ever done, yet the State of Florida plans to kill him on February 23 at 6 pm, one…

Florida’s new death penalty proposal  has constitutional issues | Opinion  By Melanie Kalmanson and Maria DeLiberato  Special to the Sun Sentinel  Feb 11, 2023 at 8:00 am  The execution chamber at Florida State Prison in Starke, Florida. (Palm Beach Post/Palm  Beach Post/TNS)  Legislation proposed in the Florida Legislature (SB450/HB555) seeks to strip  defendants facing the…

Letters: Florida must abandon death penalty for violent offenders, use life with no parole  Anne Hammock Florida Times-Union  February 11 2023  In recent years, more states have increasingly abandoned the use of the death penalty. Currently 26 states have either repealed or imposed a moratorium on the capital punishment.  The 27th state should be Florida. …