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Twenty-nine wrongfully convicted death-row prisoners have been exonerated in Florida, the most in the nation. In 21 of the 23 Florida exonerations for which the jury’s sentencing vote is known, judges imposed the death penalty by overriding a jury recommendation for life or following a non-unanimous jury recommendation for death.
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Florida Death Penalty by the Numbers (2024) 30 exonerations...
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- Florida Death Penalty Fact Sheet
Nov 5, 2018 · (Sanford, Florida, Nov. 5, 2018) – After more than 14 years behind bars—including a decade on Florida’s death row—Clemente Javier Aguirre was exonerated of all charges today in the 2004 stabbing deaths of his former neighbors Cheryl Williams and Carole Bareis.
Jul 10, 2023 · It’s no surprise that Florida also has more wrongfully convicted people exonerated from death row than any other state — in almost every case, the exonerated person was sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury.
Mr. Duty is innocent. Randy Seal was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Tscharna Hampton when she died in a fire that at the time state investigators say was intentionally set. There is no evidence that the fire was intentionally set, and in fact, the State’s experts now agree with that assessment.
Apr 1, 2021 · Herman, the Board Secretary of Witness to Innocence, was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in 2006. He spent 3 years on death row and upon his release, became the 23rd person to be exonerated from Florida’s death row — the state with the highest rate of exonerations in the country.
Mar 17, 2023 · Lamar Johnson was wrongfully convicted of a shooting without physical evidence connecting him to the incident and sentenced to life in prison. Leon Benson has been freed after 25 years of a more than 60-year sentence for a crime he maintains he did not commit.
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Nov 7, 2018 · Aguirre was convicted and sentenced to death in 2006 for the murder of two neighbors: an elderly woman and her adult daughter. He steadfastly maintained his innocence, saying he had discovered the women only after they had been killed.
