One Week for Khalil

In one week, the State of Florida plans to execute Chadwick “Khalil” Willacy.

If carried out, this execution will expose, once again, a system that refuses to follow its own laws while rushing toward the most irreversible punishment.

Add your name now to call for a halt to Khalil’s execution.

Khalil did something very simple: he asked for records.

Before his death warrant was even signed, Khalil and his legal team submitted public records requests to the Florida Department of Corrections seeking information about the State’s lethal injection protocol, including whether Florida has been using expired drugs, incorrect dosages, or substances not even authorized by the protocol.

He was trying to avoid the exact “Catch-22” that Justice Sotomayor recently warned about — where courts demand proof of unconstitutional executions, while the State withholds the very records needed to prove it.

Florida law promises transparency. It promises access to public records. It promises a meaningful opportunity to challenge how the state carries out executions. But in practice, those promises disappear when they matter most.

We have seen this pattern again and again. Florida tells people facing execution that they can challenge the method of their execution. But when they try, the state blocks access to the very information required to do so. A process that exists on paper but not in reality.

We know it can feel like we are asking you to do the same things, over and over again.

To sign. To show up. To speak out. But it matters — it matters because every time you take action, you are pushing back against a system that depends on silence. These moments, these stories, remind the world what humanity looks like, even in the face of unimaginable harm.

One day, this will end. And when it does, it will be because people like you refused to look away.

Onward,
The FADP Team