STATEMENT ON THE EXECUTION OF FRANK ATHEN WALLS Tonight, We the People of the State of Florida executed Frank Walls, a man with intellectual disability. We executed him a week before Christmas, closing out 2025 as the deadliest execution spree in Florida’s history. Frank spent 37 years on death row atoning for the murders he…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, the Florida Supreme Court issued its decisions in Jackson v. Florida and Hunt v. Florida, the first pair of cases to review Florida’s 2023 statute restoring non-unanimous death sentences, this time based on as little as an 8–4 jury recommendation, despite the United States Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Hurst v.…
In 48 hours, the State of Florida plans to execute Frank Walls. This will be the 19th execution of 2025, extending a bloody record. Yesterday, our colleagues at the Death Penalty Information Center published their annual report detailing the year’s trends in executions. Though Florida stood out in a bad way, there is still good…
