Stop the Execution of Eddie James
When I took this job, I made a commitment that we would tell the truth about Florida’s death penalty. This includes the truth about the people we are executing. Here is the truth about the execution of Eddie James: While on death row in January of 2023, Eddie James suffered a near-fatal heart attack. He was found in his cell blue and unresponsive. They shocked his heart three separate times and had to give chest compressions so fierce they cracked his ribs . He was without a pulse for at least twenty minutes and doctors determined that his brain was deprived of oxygen for nearly half an hour. Setting aside the cruel irony of bringing a man back to life just so that the state can kill him , his lawyers fought for two years to obtain the medical records that would show the extent of the damage to his brain. They finally received those records on February 14th. His warrant was signed just four days later. It is clear that Eddie suffered serious and si...