Florida
State update
Link to Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Link to death penalty statute
Sections 921-141 and 921-142
Link to execution statute
Date death penalty reenacted
December 8, 1972
Can a defendant get death penalty for a felony in which s/he was not responsible for the murder?
Yes; for drug trafficking felonies as well
How is the sentence determined?
Jury
Location of death row(s)
Jackson (Women: Atlanta)
Clemency process
State Board of Pardons has exclusive authority to grant clemency
Time of execution (in law and/or by custom)
Not specified
Number of people exonerated from death row since 1973
22
Names of people exonerated from death row since 1973
- David Keaton, 1973
- Wilbert Lee, 1975
- Freddie Pitts, 1975
- Delbert Tibbs, 1977
- Anibal Jarramillo, 1982
- Anthony Brown, 1986
- Joseph Green Brown, 1987
- Anthony Ray Peek, 1987
- Juan Ramos, 1987
- Willie Brown, 1988
- Larry Troy, 1988
- Robert Cox, 1989
- James Richardson, 1989
- Bradley P. Scott, 1991
- Andrew Golden, 1994
- Robert Hayes, 1997
- Joseph Nahume Green, 2000
- Frank Lee Smith, 2000
- Joaquin Martinez, 2001
- Juan Roberto Melendez, 2002
- Rudolph Holton, 2003
- John Ballard, 2006
