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FADP Statement on Release of DPIC Report “Enduring Injustice: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty”

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  CONTACT: Mark Elliott FADP Director (727) 215-9646 [email protected] TAMPA, FL (September 15, 2020) – The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) has released its report: “The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty.” Read the report here. This report is of great importance to Florida as: Never has a white person been executed solely…

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Take Action! Federal Execution Today

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Keith Nelson is to be executed today – Friday, August 28 at 4:00 pm EDT. Help end Federal executions now. Native American, Lezmond Mitchell, was executed this week by the U.S. Government. In horrific historical irony, officials of the U.S. Government executed a Native American for a crime on tribal land that involved only tribe members. A tribal agreement…

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Take Action! Another Federal Execution Today.

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After a pause of 17 years and despite a dramatic shift in nationwide public opinion away from executions, the Federal government is ramping up it’s new program to execute captive Americans. The Justice Department recently announced September execution dates for two more people on Federal Death Row in what would be the sixth and seventh federal…

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