Yesterday afternoon, Governor DeSantis signed a death warrant for Billy Leon Kearse. His execution is scheduled for March 3 at 6 pm. That makes three people on death watch. Three executions scheduled in just over three weeks. All three death watch cells are full. It is an execution assembly line. And it is still January.…
At 3:37pm yesterday, I was preparing a fact sheet for legislators when I received the text message I had been expecting but dreading. It came from a lawyer that our team has worked with several times over the past year, and it read: “Warrant for Melvin Trotter, 02/24.” Over the next few hours before the…
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak to people from all around the state when they traveled to Tallahassee for the Florida Council of Churches’ annual Advocacy Days event. This event centered on “Sowing the Harvest” by connecting community ministries with public policy. It included issue training sessions, an interfaith vigil, and legislative visits…
