TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) – As Florida continues to lead the nation in death row executions, three exonerated death row members are calling for Governor-elect Byron Donalds to stop this trend.
Thursday, those three men held a press conference in Tallahassee testifying to their stints on death row and what they said were failures in the legal system that led them there.
The speakers included Joaquin Martinez, convicted for a double murder in 1997 and acquitted in 2001; Seth Penalver, convicted for a triple murder and armed robbery in 1999 and acquitted in 2012 and Herman Lindsey, convicted for robbery and murder in 2006 and acquitted in 2009…