As we pause for Thanksgiving, we want to express deep gratitude for your solidarity and your unwavering commitment to challenging the death penalty in Florida. This year has brought some of the harshest expansions of state killing we’ve seen in decades – and yet, time and again, you showed up. You signed petitions, amplified stories,…
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…
