Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

FADP Reaction to FL Supreme Court Ruling in Hurst v Florida and Perry v. Florida

October 14, 2016 by Mark Elliott

FADP Statement on Today’s Florida Supreme Court Opinions on Hurst v. Florida and Perry v. Florida FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 14, 2016 CONTACT: Mark Elliott, FADP Director, (727) 215-9646, [email protected] Today, the Florida Supreme Court Released Opinions in Hurst v. Florida and Perry v. Florida. Responding to the opinions, Mark Elliott, executive director of…

Statement on Release of Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project Report on America’s Outlier Death Penalty Counties

October 12, 2016 by Mark Elliott

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 12, 2016 CONTACT: Mark Elliott, FADP Director, (727) 215-9646, [email protected] TAMPA, FL– Today, Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project released Part II of, Too Broken to Fix: An In-depth Look at America’s Outlier Death Penalty Counties, offering an in-depth look at how the death penalty is operating in the handful…

Dramatic Drop in Death Penalty Support

October 1, 2016 by Mark Elliott

Pew Poll results show that support for the death penalty has fallen to less than 50% for the first time in almost 50 years. At the same time, use of the death penalty has dropped dramatically. Over two-thirds of U.S. states have either abolished the death penalty or have not used it in more than…