Other Resources
Looking to learn more or take other actions ? Here are trusted organizations across Florida working to end the death penalty through advocacy, legal support, and public education. They all do a different, complementary and very important work.
ANTI DEATH PENALTY WORKERS
Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP)
A statewide organization, death row exonerees, murder victims’ families, and concerned citizens working to end executions in Florida. FADP's network includes murder victims’ family members and other survivors of violent crime, law enforcement professionals, families of the incarcerated, and death row exonerees. One useful resource FADP provides is the Florida Innocence List, detailing 30 people sentenced to death and then acquitted, pardoned on evidence of innocence, or having their case dismissed.
🔗 https://www.fadp.org
Innocence Project of Florida
Helps free innocent people from Florida prisons using DNA and other evidence. Many of their cases expose deep flaws in the death penalty system.
🔗 https://www.floridainnocence.org
Witness to Innocence
A national organization led by and for death row exonerees. Several Florida exonerees are active members, sharing their stories and fighting for abolition.
🔗 https://www.witnesstoinnocence.org
Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)
Though based in Alabama, EJI advocates for justice across the South, including Florida, through litigation, education, and exposing racial bias in capital cases.
🔗 https://eji.org
French Coalition Against the Death Penalty
A French-based coalition committed to ending the death penalty worldwide, with a strong focus on U.S. cases, through legal advocacy, public education, and international solidarity.
🔗 https://frenchcoalition.com
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
works on death penalty issues worldwide.
🔗https://www.ohchr.org/en/ohchr_homepage
Death Penalty Action
Provides national support for local campaigns, emergency actions during executions, and resources to activists fighting capital punishment in Florida. DPA offers links to groups working on related issues and mounts petitions to oppose each execution, including those in Florida.
🔗 https://deathpenaltyaction.org
ACLU of Florida – Criminal Justice Project
Works to challenge the death penalty through legal advocacy and policy reform as part of their broader criminal justice work. American Civil Liberties Union has long opposed the death penalty and offers some related resources.
🔗 https://www.aclufl.org/en/issues/criminal-justice
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP)
A national organization supporting local abolition efforts, including in Florida, through education and grassroots mobilization.
🔗 https://www.ncadp.org
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church (Daytona Beach)
A local parish whose members and pastor regularly participate in death-penalty vigils, most notably travelling to Starke, FL, to pray publicly outside Florida State Prison during scheduled executions.
🔗 https://www.fadp.org/vigils‑and‑protests/ (for event coordination) and also their Facebook updates: https://www.facebook.com/ourladyoflourdesdaytona/posts
Conservatives Concerned
A network of political and social conservatives who question the alignment of capital punishment with conservative principles and values; envision a future when the death penalty "no longer exists and when society meets the needs of people impacted by violence"; question "a system marked by inefficiency, inequity, and inaccuracy."
🔗https://conservativesconcerned.org/
Amnesty International – Florida Chapters
Florida-based student and community chapters working to expose and oppose the death penalty through education and public campaigns. Founded in 1961, is the world's largest grassroots human rights organizations. AIUSA addresses many human rights issues, including capital punishment, in the US and globally. AIUSA offers: general resources related to the Death Penalty as well as a Florida-specific page with a powerful, if slightly dated, video: Dark Side of the Sunshine State.
🔗 https://www.amnestyusa.org/death-penalty-in-florida
Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine
A local Florida diocese consistently advocating for the sanctity of life, including opposition to capital punishment, through prayer and public statements.
🔗 https://www.dosafl.com/life/
Florida Catholic Conference
Acts as the public policy voice of the Catholic Church in Florida, and advocates for the abolition of the death penalty through statewide campaigns.
🔗 https://flaccb.org/death-penalty
Clergy United Against the Death Penalty
An interfaith coalition of religious leaders speaking out against executions and supporting advocacy in states like Florida.
🔗 https://deathpenaltyaction.org/faith-action
Restorative Justice Coalition (Tampa)
A Tampa-based faith-inspired group promoting alternatives to incarceration and opposing the death penalty as part of restorative justice efforts.
🔗 https://www.instagram.com/restorativejusticecoalition/
Matir Asurim: Jewish Care Network for Incarcerated People
A Jewish-led network supporting incarcerated individuals via spiritual care, restorative justice, and abolition education, with engagement around death penalty issues.
🔗 https://www.matirasurim.org/blog/tag/death‑penalty
L’Chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty
A Jewish faith-based group opposing executions, especially in Florida, where several of its leaders focus on spiritual and public witness against capital punishment. L'Chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty is a group of those who identify as Jewish or with the Jewish abolitionist cause to end the death penalty in the United States (federally and in all death-penalty states) and throughout the world. Activities include organizing daily calls to governors of states, including Florida, where the death penalty persists.
🔗 https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093837056238
Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN)
A national Catholic organization working with Florida parishes and dioceses to end the death penalty and promote restorative justice. First Friday Prayer Vigils provide monthly "sacred space to lament upcoming executions and bear witness to the sanctity of all human life.... guided prayer, petitions, Scripture reflections, and contemplative silence. Catholic bishops, ministry leaders, and allies from the abolition movement often lend their voices to these gatherings."
🔗 https://catholicsmobilizing.org
Church of the Brethren – Death Row Support Project
Pairs individuals and congregations with people on death row including in Florida for compassionate correspondence and support.
🔗 https://www.brethren.org/drsp/
Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBIJ)
A justice reform nonprofit engaging business leaders to oppose the death penalty, including in Florida, on human rights and cost-effectiveness grounds.
🔗 https://www.rbij.org
Death Penalty Information Center (DPI)
A national nonprofit providing authoritative data, analysis, and resources on the death penalty extensively used by policymakers, media, and advocates across the U.S., including Florida. Founded in 1990, is a national non-profit organization providing data and analysis on issues concerning capital punishment and the people it affects. DPI offers a wide variety of free online resources including searchable databases which can be narrowed by state. Here is one page with basic information on the death penalty in Florida.
🔗 https://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
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