Last night, We the People of the State of Florida executed U.S. Army Veteran Richard Barry Randolph (Malik Abdul-Sajjad) for the 1988 murder of Minnie Ruth McCollum. Malik was the 17th person executed this year, and the seventh veteran Florida has put to death in 2025. As we shared in our public statement, Malik’s life…
A Year Defined by Unprecedented Executions Florida is scheduled to execute Mark Geralds on December 9 — in the final month of the deadliest year in Florida history. Seventeen people have already been executed, not one granted a stay, and several of them were Mark’s own neighbors on death row. Against that backdrop, Mr. Geralds…
Tonight, We the People of the State of Florida executed U.S. Army Veteran Richard Barry Randolph (Malik Abdul-Sajjad) for the 1988 murder of Minnie Ruth McCollum. Tonight’s execution shows, with painful clarity, that the State of Florida does not believe in redemption. Or hope. And that it only believes that more violence is the solution.…
