Last night, the State of Florida sunk to another low as it executed David Pittman, an intellectually disabled man. As we said in our statement, which we urge you to share, last night Florida ignored a clear legal prohibition against executing people with intellectual disability. Instead they hid behind arbitrary and shifting procedural rules to…
Tonight, We the People of the State of Florida killed David Pittman, an intellectually disabled man. We killed a man who was broken and beaten as a child. A child his own mother described as one that no mother would want. She mercilessly beat him and told him and his siblings they were welcome to…
Florida is on the brink of carrying out its 12th execution this year – the state’s deadliest pace in history. On Wednesday, September 17, David Pittman is scheduled to be killed. At a time when violence is everywhere, Florida’s government has chosen to meet violence with more violence. The death penalty is punishment-as-spectacle, rooted in…
