Attribution: Ernest Suggs’s legal team.

Add your name: help prevent a wrongful execution in Florida

Hey Jack,

Ernest Suggs needs your help to stop his execution before it’s scheduled! For more than 30 years, Florida has held Ernest on death row for a killing he did not commit. There was no direct evidence linking him to the murder, and there are alternative suspects who have never been investigated thoroughly.

Even the murder victim’s daughter has long believed that Ernest is innocent and is actively fighting to make sure Florida does not send him to the death chamber.

Many questions about his case are still unresolved, and there is new evidence that should be heard by a jury. Add your name to urge Florida state officials to consider all new evidence in Ernest’s case.

Florida is one of only two states that don’t require a unanimous decision to impose a death sentence. But if Ernest was tried today, he would not be sent to death row. In 1992, Ernest was sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury vote of 7 to 5. Today, Florida law requires at least 8 jurors to vote for death.

Regardless of the jury vote, Ernest should never have been convicted. He should not be on death row. He should not be executed.

Since the beginning of last year, Florida has rushed to execute people at an unprecedented rate. They ignored pleas from victims' families and the discovery of new evidence. Just like in Ernest’s case.

We need your signature to remind state officials what a huge mistake it was to send Ernest to the row—and what they can do to fix it. 

Sign if you agree that Florida state officials should consider all new evidence in Ernest’s case.

In solidarity,

U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty