Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

If the bill passes as-is, Florida would have “the most extreme death penalty statute in the country,” said Maria DeLiberato, executive director of Floridians For Alternatives to the Death Penalty and a longtime capital defense attorney. Read the full article.  

“Florida has had more exonerations of death row inmates than any other state in the country: roughly one for every three executions carried out. That ought to inspire more humility, not aggressiveness, in deciding when the state should be allowed to kill.”

Last week, I shared with you my favorite quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” How can we continue to bend the arc together? Unfortunately, on Monday, Governor DeSantis signed a death warrant for Donald David Dillbeck to be executed on February…