TAMPA, Fla – Dozier School survivor Michael “Mike” Bell is scheduled to be executed today, Tuesday, July 15, at 6 p.m for the 1993 murders of Jimmy West and Tamecka Smith.
At 2 p.m. today, Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP) will deliver more than 5,500 petition signatures to Governor DeSantis, urging him to halt the execution.
Unless a stay is granted, FADP and advocates from across the state will gather at 5 p.m. this evening outside Florida State Prison for a vigil and peaceful protest ahead of the scheduled execution. All are invited to stand in solidarity.
Please gather in the designated area across the highway from the death chamber at Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, FL 32026.
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FADP is a Florida-based, statewide organization of individuals and groups working together to end the death penalty in Florida. Our network includes dozens of state and local groups and thousands of individual Floridians, including murder victims’ family members and other survivors of violent crime, law enforcement professionals, families of the incarcerated, and death row exonerees.