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…
Last night, I stood outside Florida State Prison as the State carried out the eighteenth execution of this year. Mark Allen Geralds died at 6:15 p.m. — another life taken in what has been the deadliest year in our state’s history. Being at the prison, watching yet another family lose someone they loved, is a…
