Build a prison. Joseph Green is the 87th condemned prisoner since 1973 to be freed from death row after evidence of their innocence emerged. He had been convicted of murder and sentenced to die in Florida in 1993. Joseph Green spent three and a half years in Florida s execution chamber, during which time eight inmates were put to death in the electric chair.
Death row is very, very dehumanizing.
He says he cannot hear the hum of an air conditioner without thinking of the electricity of the death chamber. African American Joseph Green, spent almost seven years imprisoned for the murder of local journalist Judy Miscally, white, in Starke, Florida, in 1992. He was convicted on the basis of a witness account later acknowledged by the court to be unreliable. Amnesty International welcomed the moratorium on executions announced on 31 January by Governor Ryan of Illinois in response to his state s shameful record of wrongful capital convictions. At the same time, however, the organization noted with concern the new legislation enacted by Governor Jeb Bush of Florida to limit the appeals of condemned inmates in a bid to speed up executions.