Execution date set in Florida

Execution date set in Florida

If this execution is held, Tallahassee Citizens Against the Death Penalty will hold a vigil at 6 p.m. that day at the governor’s mansion and will follow it by a service of remembrance   at noon the next day at the capital rotunda for the accused killer and the victim.

“TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Charlie Crist has set a date — for the second time — for the execution of John Richard Marek.
Marek is to be executed Aug. 19. He was originally scheduled to die by lethal injection May 13 for the 1983 kidnapping, rape and murder of Adella Marie Simmons in Broward County.

The Supreme Court put the execution on hold May 11, allowing Marek time to argue his accomplice, Raymond Wigley, was the actual killer. The court lifted the stay Thursday and the execution was rescheduled Friday.

ANOTHER FLORIDA DEATH ROW EXONERATION!

Friends,

On July 9, 2009, the Florida Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Herman Lindsey be acquitted and released from Death Row.  The court said that “the state failed to produce any evidence in this case placing Lindsey at the scene of the crime at the time of the murder,” and that the evidence presented was “equally consistent with a reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”

From the Death Penalty Information Center, “According to DPIC’s Innocence List, Lindsey is the 135th person to be exonerated from death row since the death penalty was reinstated and the fifth person exonerated from death row in 2009.  Lindsey is the 23rd exoneration in Florida — the state that leads the country in death row exonerations.”

“DPIC’s Innocence List consists of former death row inmates who have been acqu itted of all charges related to the crime that placed them on death row; had all charges dismissed by the prosecution; or been granted complete pardon based on evidence of innocence.”

Shine the light,

Mark

Sent by:

Mark Elliott
Executive Director
Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, FADP.org

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