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URGENT ACTION!!!

March 29, 2021 by Mark Elliott

Bulletin! We have just learned that this Tuesday morning, March 30, the Florida State Senate Criminal Justice Committee will hear an important bill that, if passed, would ensure that no one in Florida with serious mental illness would be subject to the death penalty.

A similar bill was signed into law in Ohio earlier this year. Now it’s Florida’s turn!

This is a significant step in the right direction and FADP strongly supports it. To pass, we need you and everyone to take action today!

Join us in calling on Florida State Senators to pass SB-1156 by Sen. Jeff Brandes, “Serious Mental Illness as Bar to Execution,” which would exempt those with serious mental illness from the death penalty. Please feel free to write to your Senator using your own words or here is a sample you can use.

Here is what to do:

Floridians Contact: Your State Senator.

Tell them: I am a constituent. I urge you to support SB-1156, which would exempt the seriously mentally ill from the death penalty. This is important to me because those with serious mental illness should never be executed.

For those outside Florida: Email Sen. Jason Pizzo in support of SB 1156 and cc: committee members

Florida Senate Criminal Justice Committee

Chair Sen. Jason Pizzo: pizzo.jason@flsenate.gov

Vice-Chair Sen. Jeff Brandes: brandes.jeff@flsenate.gov

Sen. Dennis Baxley: baxley.dennis.web@flsenate.gov

Sen. Jim Boyd: boyd.jim.web@flsenate.gov

Sen. George Gainer: gainer.george.web@flsenate.gov

Sen. Keith Perry: perry.keith@flsenate.gov

Sen. Bobby Powell: powell.bobby@flsenate.gov

Sen. Annette Taddeo: taddeo.annette@flsenate.gov

This is it, everyone. A moment we must seize

Mark Elliott
Executive Director
Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, FADP
P.O. Box 82943
Tampa, FL  33682
727-215-9646

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Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP) is a non-profit and non-partisan statewide Florida grassroots organization of individuals and groups united to abolish the Death Penalty in Florida

 

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