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Sign Petition to Stop Martin Grossman's Execution

A powerful documentary film-in-progress about love, betrayal, forgiveness and redemption...
 
URGENT CALL FOR ACTION AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE!
 
You can make a real difference! Help save Martin Grossman's life! Please sign the petition!
 
All information you need to know to take action is on the Floridians to Abolish the Death Penalty web site:
 
1) A link to the petition
 
2) Amnesty International's Take Urgent Action Campaign
 
3) Letter for FL Clergy and Community & Organization Leaders
 
 
A Death Warrant has been signed for Martin Grossman, a Jewish prisoner we have been filming who has been  on Death Row in Florida for 25 years. Martin is scheduled to be executed on Feb. 16th.
 
Please help stop his execution. Martin was a troubled youth and on drugs, and at the age of 19, killed a Fish & Wildlife Officer, Margaret Park. It was not pre-meditated. He was in violation of his probation (he had been in jail for a burglary) and was in possession of a stolen handgun in the woods with a friend, who was also on drugs. Margaret Park caught them and told Martin he was going back to prison. Martin panicked and the rest is a tragedy of monumental proportions for two families. Martin's friend received a three year sentence. 
 
This was not only a tragedy for Margaret Park's family, but also for Martin Grossman's family. We have been filming Martin and his family for almost two years and they have never recovered.
 
Martin is not the same person who committed this  crime. He is not evil. Executing him 25 years later will not bring Margeret Park back. Martin is extremely remorseful and has greatly changed. Nowadays, it's unconsitutional for an 18 year old to receive the Death Penalty.  He has an exemplary prison discipline record and it is highly unlikely to be a danger in the future. We are not looking to have him be released. Just for Gov. Crist to issue Executive Clemency and for commutation of Martin Grossman's death sentence.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sign a petition to help save Martin's life.

Amnesty International's Urgent Action Campaign to Stop Execution of Martin Grossman

Martin Grossman on the day of his Bar Mitzvah
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A POWERFUL DOCUMENTARY FILM -IN-PROGESS

The word, "Teshuva" is a Judaic concept of redemption and return to God and one's essential self. Our film, RETURN (TESHUVA), follows two young Jewish prisoners, who struggle to repair their broken lives and the devastation they've caused their loved ones.

"Teshuva was put into the world because God knew that humans would get lost and make mistakes. God knew that we would need a way back."                                                              

(Rabbi Mark Borovitz, author of  Holy Thief: A Con Man's Journey From Darkness to Light)              

                                                                                                                                                                        

 













































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