Chadwick “Khalil” Willacy is scheduled to be executed in Florida on April 21 at 6 pm for the 1990 murder of Marlys Sather. On March 6, counsel for Khalil filed public records requests in the circuit court regarding Florida’s maladministration of its own lethal injection protocol, including evidence that the State is dispensing expired drugs,…
Dear Friends, In 1987, 11-year-old Teresa McAbee was raped and murdered. Her family has lived with that loss for nearly four decades. James Duckett was convicted of that crime on circumstantial evidence. As we write this, advanced DNA testing is being conducted on the last remaining biological evidence from her case using technology that did…
Executive Director Letter Hello! Welcome to the first edition of Meanwhile in Florida, Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty’s newsletter about all of the non-execution-related work happening in the fight to end capital punishment in the Sunshine State. Why are we doing this? After 19 executions in 2025, and already four in 2026, it…
