Gov. Scott has ordered Jerry Correll to be executed on Thursday, October 29 at 6pm ET. This would be the 22nd execution of a well-secured, captive prisoner ordered by Richard Lynn Scott and will break the modern record for executions carried out by a Florida governor. It is astonishingly ill-advised for Gov. Scott to order…
Execution Date! OCT 29 at 6pm ET – Jerry Correll
David Keaton RIP
David Keaton was the first exonerated death row survivor of the modern era in Florida and the nation. Dave passed away at home. He is remembered by all who knew him as a kind, gentle, soft-spoken advocate for ending the death penalty. His memory, like his poems and original songs, will live long in the…
David Keaton, Florida and the nation’s first exonerated death row survivor of the modern era has died.
***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
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!
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…
Nebraska – Red State Closes in on Abolition!
Nebraska Overwhelmingly Votes for Abolition! Nebraska legislators have again passed a bill to abolish the death penalty. Today’s final vote was 32-15, enough votes to override a veto promised by Gov. Ricketts. If the vote holds, Nebraska would be the first conservative Republican state to abolish the death penalty in 42 years and the 19th…
FADP Press Release – FBI Report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: MARK ELLIOTT APRIL 22, 2015 727.215.9646…
U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on FL Death Sentencing
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Florida’s unusual death penalty sentencing scheme is constitutional. The high court will hear arguments in the case of Hurst v. Florida in the next session that begins in October. Florida is an outlier in how juries decide whether or not to recommend a sentence of death.…
STAY!!!
The Florida Supreme Court has stayed the Feb. 26 execution of Jerry Correll. This and all Florida executions likely to be stayed until at least June when the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on Oklahoma’s lethal injection procedure that is virtually identical to Florida’s.
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