3 Exonerated Florida Inmates Urge Donalds to Halt Executions as State Nears 20th This Year
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Updated · The Washington Post · Nov 12
3 Exonerated Florida Inmates Urge Donalds to Halt Executions as State Nears 20th This Year
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Nov 12
Summary
Three men exonerated from Florida’s death row — Joaquín José Martínez, Herman Lindsey and Seth Penalver — urged Gov.-elect Byron Donalds to pause executions and review laws they say allow wrongful convictions.
Florida has 234 inmates on death row and carried out its 19th execution on Nov. 5, tying the modern state record set in 2025; Thomas Mitchell Overton’s scheduled Nov. 19 execution would set a new mark.
Donalds, who takes office Jan. 5 and will gain authority to sign death warrants, has said he firmly supports the death penalty, though he told a student newspaper he would review cases individually.
Florida has exonerated 30 people from death row — the most of any state — while national support for capital punishment fell to 49% in a Gallup poll, below half for the first time since 1971.