Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP),<\/a> before Florida\u2019s execution of death-row inmate Norman\u2019s Grim. It\u2019s the 15th execution in Florida this year.<\/p>\nFADP stands on the corner of Ulmerton Road and 49th Street North for every execution because they believe the death penalty is wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mark Elliott is the former director of FADP. He said life in prison is a harsher punishment for these criminals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had volunteer people who have killed other inmates, and threaten to keep killing unless they get the death penalty. They want to get out of the general population, where they don\u2019t feel safe and go to death row,\u201d Elliott said.<\/p>\n
He was not the only one who felt this way.\u00a0Every demonstrator agreed that life in prison is the best option and killing inmates like Grim does not justify their actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ann Richter said she feels terrible for Grim.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis man is a veteran. He had a terrible childhood. He was abused and with parents who were drug addicts and alcoholics,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Richter said there needs to be better care for veterans to prevent these actions from recurring.<\/p>\n
\u201cNorman\u2019s crime was tragic. So was the lifetime of trauma and mental illness that led him there. And the shameful endcap is what Florida did tonight \u2014 killing a broken man who had already given up on living,\u201d said an online statement by FADP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Large FADP sign with a demonstrator standing behind it. Photo by Leah Burdick On Tuesday, 12 demonstrators stood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[408,28,30,29,18637,4085,4325],"class_list":["post-25058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-death-penalty","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-floridians-for-alternatives-to-the-death-penalty","tag-largo","tag-vigil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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