Florida’s Final Sentence

Florida’s Final Sentence

Wrongful Convictions, Executions, and the Cost of CertaintyBy Carey Randall
Michael Caine
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Length1h 42m

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Florida leads the nation in death-row exonerations. That fact alone demands explanation. In Florida’s Final Sentence, Carey Randall examines decades of wrongful convictions and executions to uncover how certainty repeatedly replaced scrutiny inside Florida’s capital punishment system—and how those decisions cost innocent people their freedom and, in some cases, their lives. Drawing from documented cases, court findings, and historical records, this book traces the patterns that made irreversible error possible: coerced confessions, mistaken eyewitness identifications, incentivized informant testimony, unreliable forensic science, and institutional resistance to admitting error. This is not an argument built on theory or ideology. It is a record built on names, timelines, and outcomes. Florida’s Final Sentence reveals a system that valued finality over accuracy—and certainty over truth.

Audiobook details

GenreTrue Crime
Length1 hr 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 24, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Title / Copy Right / Disclaimer
14Chapter 11: Herman Lindsey
2Introduction
15Chapter 12: Anthony Caravella
3Part I: Foundations of Failure
16Chapter 13: Johnathan Salvador
4Chapter 1: David Keaton
17Chapter 14: Sidney Burns
5Chapter 2: Delbert Tibbs
18Chapter 15: Robert Cox
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6Chapter 3: Joseph Green Brown
19Chapter 16: Linroy Bottoson
7Chapter 4: John Earl Bush
20Chapter 17: Charles Ray Finch
8Chapter 5: Frank Lee Smith
21Chapter 18: Freddie Lee Pitts Jr.
9Chapter 6: Wilton Dedge
22Chapter 19: Wilbert Lee
10Chapter 7: James Bain
23Chapter 20: Anthony Graves
11Chapter 8: Sidney “Sid” Holmes
24Chapter 21: The Pattern, Not the Exception
12Chapter 9: James Joseph Richardson
25Chapter 22: The Cost of Certainty
13Chapter 10: Luis Diaz
26A Final Request to the Reader

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