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10/19/2025

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10/13/2025

The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops (FCCB) has asked Gov. Ron DeSantis to stay the ex*****on of Samuel Smithers scheduled for October 14, 2025, and commute his sentences to life imprisonment without parole. Smithers was sentenced to death for the murders of Cristy Cowan and Denise Roach in 1996.

In a letter to DeSantis, Michael Sheedy, FCCB executive director, mourned the tragic deaths of Cowan and Roach and the suffering of their loved ones, yet urged the governor to spare Smithers’ life. Mr. Smithers’ crimes were heinous, and it is right that the state should punish them severely,” wrote Sheedy. “Nevertheless, even as we pray for the repose of the souls of the victims and for the consolation of their survivors, we ask that you spare Mr. Smithers’ life.”

The death penalty attacks the inviolability of the human person. Life-long incarceration without the possibility of parole is a severe yet more humane punishment that ensures societal safety, allows the guilty the possibility of redemption, and offers finality to court processes without ending another human life.

Please take the following two actions in support of human life and dignity:

1. PRAY:

Join us in prayer for Mr. Smithers, his victims, Ms. Cowan and Ms. Roach, and their families. Please pray also for Governor DeSantis as he considers the request to stay the ex*****on, as well as for an end to the use of the death penalty.

2. CONTACT GOVERNOR DESANTIS:

Send a message to Governor DeSantis urging him to stay the ex*****on of Samuel Smithers and commute his death sentences to life without parole.

10/13/2025

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