Big Chance Shining Up: Death Row Exonerees and FADP Asked To Speak To The Governor...

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FADP Update

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Governor Scott’s office has challenged us. Death Row exonerees Seth Penalver and Herman Lindsey have asked to speak to the Governor, tell him their stories and implore him to veto the dangerous Timely Justice Act. They want him to warn him that this law will result in the execution of innocent people on Death Row. We have been doing press conferences together and CNN reports this challenge from the Governor:

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On death row now for over a decade, Jeffrey Havard fights wrongful conviction and death sentence by Mississippi state

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April 22, 2013 | Lisa Dawson

The 2002 conviction of Jeffrey Havard reeks of WRONGFUL in a really bad, alarming sort of way. The kind of way that caused me to wonder if at this moment I was somehow involved in some sort of freak situation that could earn me a wrongful conviction, landing me in solitary confinement on death row for years on end, all due to some outrageous misinterpretation or spinning of facts as they occurred—all completely out of my control.

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Free Jay Masters

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Join the Campaign to Free Jarvis Jay Masters

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William Van Poyck: A great Chance for him! Please, sign the Petition!

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Will you please help save William Van Poyck? On the heels of new legislation in Florida to speed up executions, the governor has signed his death warrant. Billy was convicted under Florida’s felony-murder rule. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Bill's lawyer wants to flood the Governor's office with letters. He will send a form letter and can be modified by the individual.

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"I Thought Solitary Confinement in Iran Was Bad - Then I Went Inside America´s Prison"

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I Thought Solitary Confinement in Iran Was Bad -- Then I Went Inside America's Prisons

May 4, 2013  |

Shane Bauer was one of the three American hikers imprisoned in Iran after being apprehended on the Iraqi border in 2009.

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