Contact the Governor:
Please contact Florida Gov. Rick Scott and urge him to stop signing Death Warrants and order a unbiased, thorough, and complete investigation of Florida’s costly, wasteful, and mistake-ridden death penalty program.
The best estimate is that trying to enforce the death penalty costs Florida taxpayers at least $51 million per year over and above the cost of sentencing the same people to Life in Prison. The death penalty is much harder on murder victim’s families. There is no proof whatsoever that it deters violent crime. Florida has had far more innocent people exonerated and released from death row than any other state (27 thus far). It’s time to end executions and re-invest these huge sums of taxpayer dollars in well-proven, cost-effective methods to prevent violent crime, protect Florida families, and quickly provide for the needs of victim’s families and all those impacted by violent crime.
Contact Governor Rick Scott now!
You can also write letters to:
Governor Rick Scott
The Capitol
400 S. Monroe St.
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Or you can call (Mon-Fri 8am-5pm): 850-488-7146
Local Actions:
Miami-Dade, Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Duval Counties are the four Florida counties that been found to have the most extreme use of sentencing and part of only 16 U.S. counties that sentenced 5 or more people to death between 2010-2015. The State Attorney decides whether or not to seek the death penalty. Contact your elected State Attorney and urge them to reduce or end seeking the death penalty. Death penalty decisions begin here. Your voice counts more at the local level.
Sample message:
NEW DEATH SENTENCES AND DEATH RESENTENCES
As State Attorney for ___________ County, I urge you to reduce or end seeking new death sentences and death resentences. These costly, wasteful, and unnecessary procedures do nothing to make our communities safer, prevent violent crime, promote healing for victims’ families, or protect law enforcement and school children.
Recent polling indicates that a compelling majority of Florida voters prefer life sentences over death for those convicted of murder. Death penalty trials and death resentencing hearings, together with the many years of continued litigation, re-traumatize victims’ families and force them to re-live the worst day of their lives over and over again.
I urge you to re-direct your resources to healing the community, helping victims of violent crime and their families, solving more rapes and homicides, and preventing violent crimes.
Miami-Dade County
Katherine Fernandez Rundle
Miami-Dade County State Attorney
1350 NW 12 Avenue
Miami, FL 33136
Phone: (305) 547-0100
Email: [email protected]
Hillsborough County
Andrew Warren
Hillsborough County State Attorney
419 N Pierce Street
Tampa, FL 33602
Phone: (813) 272-5400
Email: [email protected]
Pinellas – Pasco Counties
Bernie McCabe
Pinellas, Pasco County State Attorney
14250 49th Street N
Clearwater, FL 33762
Phone: (727) 464-6221 Email: [email protected]
Duval County
Melissa Nelson
Duval, Nassau, Clay County State Attorney
Ed Austin Building
311 West Monroe Street
Jacksonville, FL 32202
Phone: (904) 255-2500
Email: [email protected]