"The death penalty is not about money. It's about the ultimate punishment for the most heinous of crimes"

If this is the yardstick by which the death penalty is to be measured, then any objective examination of Florida's death penalty must find it comes up short.

Florida Death Penalty Statistics

391	People on Florida's Death Row (as of February 9, 2009)
67	People Executed Since Florida Death Penalty Reinstituted (1976)
9	People Executed Who Did Not Exhaust Appeals (Volunteers)
274	People Whose Death Sentences Have Been Reduced to Life Imprisonment (since 1984)
22	People Who Once Were On Florida's Death Row Have Been Exonerated[1]

If all 391 people currently on Florida's death row have committed the most heinous of crimes deserving of the ultimate punishment, the fact that only 67 people have been executed in over 30 years clearly demonstrates the futility of our death penalty.

If, on the other hand, only the 67 people who have been executed deserved the ultimate punishment for the heinous crimes they committed, the fact that there are another 391 people on death row demonstrates the excesses of our death penalty.

The fact that 274 people who had been sentenced to death have had their sentences reduced to life imprisonment together with the fact that 22 people who had been sentenced to death have later been determined to be not guilty, demonstrates the inaccuracy of our death penalty.

Florida's Death Penalty
System Is Ineffective