Florida Attorney and Researcher Melanie Kalmanson on Recent Developments in Florida’s Death Penalty

In the August 2025 episode of 12:01: The Death Penalty in Context, DPI Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with Melanie Kalmanson, a Florida attor­ney and author of the Substack newslet­ter Tracking Florida’s Death Penalty. Ms. Kalmanson’s newslet­ter com­piles data on leg­is­la­tion, cap­i­tal tri­als, death sen­tences, and exe­cu­tions in Florida. In the pod­cast, she dis­cuss­es how she start­ed fol­low­ing those devel­op­ments, key events in the recent his­to­ry of Florida’s death penal­ty, and why Florida has seen a sig­nif­i­cant increase in exe­cu­tions this year, even as new death sen­tences remain low.