TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Beginning at 9 a.m. EST at the Florida State Capitol, Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP) will gather to deliver petitions to Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Board of Executive Clemency, urging them to stop the execution of Loran Cole, scheduled for Thursday, August 29, at 6 p.m. FADP…
FADP has kept busy this year. We have been upgrading the technology we depend on, re-thinking our strategies, looking for ways to be more efficient, and working to include a growing number of people in the movement to end the death penalty. Much of that work is important, but hasn’t been visible to our friends…
Loran Cole is scheduled to be executed three weeks from tomorrow, on August 29th at 6 pm. Late yesterday, the Court denied Loran’s motion for an evidentiary hearing and prohibited him from presenting the testimony – that his sentencing jury never heard – about the abuse he suffered at the hands of state officials at…
