Since 1983, no Florida governor has given a death row prisoner clemency, which would commute the sentence to life without parole. Yet 27 times, Florida has sent the wrong person to death row.

Over two months ago, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried sent a letter to her fellow Clemency Board colleagues, calling for the adoption of new clemency rules. Her letter, just like the will of ...

Clemency is a form of mercy by a government toward a lawbreaker. But politicians in Florida show no mercy about reforming the state’s backlogged clemency system, which has needed fixing for a ...

DeSantis and the Clemency Board should follow Fried’s lead, change the rules and restore the rights of their fellow Floridians. U.S. Representative Charlie Crist, a Democrat, represents Florida ...

As Florida’s top leaders contemplate his clemency, Michael Edwards pleaded for mercy in a letter to the governor and Cabinet. He called himself an “idiot” for using a cell phone, the only ...

Letter . Letter Urging Florida Board of Executive Clemency Not to Further Restrict Voting Rights . Document Date: March 4, 2011 . Affiliate: ACLU of Florida . Download document. Download document.

While serving a life sentence for that crime, he confessed in 2005 to the 1988 rape and murder of Patricia “Patsy” Miller, a Melbourne, Florida, nurse. Barnes says he raped Miller twice ...

The Kreusler family wants Mark Herman exonerated in their father's 1976 murder. A Florida prosecutor's Conviction Review Unit may be their last hope.

In a letter to her colleagues, she asked that the issue be taken up at their next meeting on Oct. 8. ... But Fried is right. Florida's clemency system is a mess that demands change.

For decades, Patti Kreusler Ceravolo has been haunted by her father’s 1976 murder, never believing that the right man was convicted and fearing the real killer was still on the loose.. Enlisting the ...