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Talking Points For Visiting Florida Legislators
The following reflects where we were at the end of the 2005 legislative session. Please check back for updates on these issues, which should be complete by January 13, 2006. Thank you for your patience.
- Click Here for General Death Penalty Talking Points
Click Here for “Wrongful Convictions” HB247/SB1004
Click Here for “Juvenile Death Penalty” HB1017/SB346
All you really need to say at this time is something like this:
“Look, it really does not matter if you support or oppose the idea of the death penalty. If you are for the death penalty, it does not move fast enough, and sometimes we convict the wrong person – which leaves the real criminal out on the street. We all agree that it’s bad when that happens, right? So, let’s look at the legislative agenda for this new session…”
#1 – I ask you sponsor a bill that puts a moratorium on the death penalty in Florida and provides funding for a full and fair review of Florida’s death penalty system.
If you feel comfortable with it, add something like:
“We really need you to be a leader on this issue. Even if you support the death penalty, let’s have a “time out” to address problems like:
- Racism in the application of the death penalty
- The need for availability of DNA testing and other newly-developed scientific methods of examining case evidence
- The sentencing of teenagers to death
- Inadequate funding for death row defense counsel
- The need for a method to hold police and prosecutors accountable when evidence favorable to the defense is withheld
- Limitation of court access to death-sentenced persons
- The need for a unanimous jury recommendation for death to be imposed
- The recent enactment of a perjury statute that punishes recanting defense witnesses
- The lack of standards to determine which cases are death-eligible
Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
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2603 NW 13th St (AKA Dr. MLK Jr. Hwy)
Gainesville, FL 32609
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