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Article: A look at day-to-day death row operations.
- Article from:
- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 American Correctional Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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In Florida, as in other states, executions are often high-profile events that receive national media coverage and generate a great deal of interest and discussion. Less is known, however, about the day-to-day operation of the state's death row unit.
Since 1979, 29 offenders have been executed in Florida. Another 331 currently sit on the state's death row. The 326 men on death row are housed at Florida State Prison in Starke and at Union Correctional Institution in neighboring Raiford. The five women sentenced to death are housed at Broward Correctional Institution, located in Pembroke Pines. The average length of stay on death row is nine years.
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