For months, Florida has been considering execution dates for a veteran on its death row, James Dailey. Dailey has significant evidence of innocence that has yet to be examined, including the statement of another inmate that exonerates anyone else of the crime.
Despite its terrible legacy of wrongful convictions, leading the nation with 29 exonerations from death row, Florida has yet to take meaningful action on this case and Dailey’s life is still in danger.
Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty has joined with eight former and
current prosecutors and attorneys general, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops to file a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on James Dailey’s behalf.
Our brief can be read here.
