Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

David Keaton, Florida and the nation’s first exonerated death row survivor of the modern era has died.

July 11, 2015 by Mark Elliott

***MEDIA ALERT*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 7, 2015 Contact: Mark Elliott Director, Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP) (727) 215-9646 [email protected] David Keaton, Florida and the nation’s first exonerated death row survivor of the modern era has died. July 7, 2015, Tampa, FL – Dave Keaton, the modern era’s first death row exoneree…

FADP Statement on Glossip Decision

June 29, 2015 by Mark Elliott

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mark Elliott Director, Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (727) 215-9646, [email protected] U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Glossip vs Gross SCOTUS allows Oklahoma 3 drug lethal injection protocol that is essentially the same used in Florida’s Death Chamber Tampa, FL, June 29, 2015 —Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that…

Nebraska Repeals!

May 28, 2015 by Mark Elliott

Nebraska Legislators have successfully voted to override their governor’s veto of the repeal of that state’s death penalty. Nebraska becomes the first conservative Republican state to abolish the death penalty in over 40 years and the nineteenth U.S. state to do so. Following last week’s 32-15 vote for repeal, Gov. Rickett’s pressure was intense on…