Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed the death warrant for Larry Eugene Mann, who sets on Florida’s Death Row after being convicted of kidnapping and first degree murder of Elisa Nelson, 10 years old, in November 1980.
The Execution of Larry Eugene Mann is currently scheduled by the Florida Department of Corrections for
With thanks to Amnesty.org for keeping track of the national execution schedule (correct as of February 6, 2013), let’s consider what is going on in the United States right now. In all the states that allow for capital punishment, consider this:
Terry and I had discussed posting on another matter this week, but this YouTube video literally made me nauseous as tears ran down my face so we’ll be posting on that news story next week and we’re sharing this with you today.
Please watch this and think about what it means to serve time on
Terry Lenamon went to see the early screening of the new documentary West of Memphis in New York City (see our earlier post) and he’ll be sharing his experiences here in a later post … meanwhile, Terry’s very excited about spreading the word about this film and generating public awareness about this case.
It’s opening
The Eleventh Circuit has stayed the execution of Florida Death Row inmate John Ferguson, a paranoid schizophrenic, a day after it vacated its previous stay and sent Ferguson’s attorneys rushing to the U.S. Supreme Court for emergency action.
Read the Order that stopped the October 23, 2012, execution here.
These are temporary holds while more
As I type this, the latest news on Florida Death Row Inmate John Ferguson is that he has ordered, and may be eating right now, a last meal of a chicken sandwich and sweet tea.
Or maybe that’s already happened, and he’s being prepared for execution.
Hat tip to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty for keeping an online execution schedule, which we’ve reviewed and noticed that Ohio is beating even Texas in capital punishment in the upcoming months — Ohio has 9 executions set; Texas has 8; Pennsylvania, Florida, and South Dakota each have one execution on their
Robert Towery was executed by the State of Arizona on March 8, 2012. No one would know better than Mr. Towery about how life is on Death Row as execution approaches.
His diary of the last 30 days on Arizona’s Death Row, on Death Watch, has been published as an ebook on Amazon.com and it’s
Here are ten (10) things that you might not know about Florida’s Death Row (facts courtesy of the Florida Department of Corrections):
1. The Executioner gets paid $150.00 to kill someone in a State of Florida execution.
2. There are three Death Rows in Florida. Women* facing capital punishment live in Lowell, Florida, at
This week, a new study was released on the state of Death Row here in America, surveying both the various state death rows as well as federal. Here are some interesting facts from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Death Row USA quarterly report, Spring 2012 edition: