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The Window on Death Row Screening & Q+A (Daytona Beach)

Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty · 28 October 2026

Title card for The Window on Death Row: Joaquin Jose Martinez, a man with grey hair and glasses in a dark coat, and his wife Jessica, in a dark scarf, look up at the barred windows of the old La Modelo prison in Barcelona.
The title card of The Window on Death Row, showing Joaquín José Martínez and his wife Jessica outside the old La Modelo prison in Barcelona. Photo: Glooww / CC BY-SA 4.0

“I would have been dead today if I hadn’t gone to death row.”

Joaquín José Martínez, the first Spaniard ever exonerated from U.S. death row, was once a supporter of capital punishment until, at 24, he was convicted of a double murder in Florida. He spent more than five years behind bars, three on death row. Two decades after he was exonerated, Joaquín transforms his trauma into advocacy.

The Window on Death Row, a short film, explores urgent questions: What happens when we almost execute an innocent man? Is closure possible for the victims’ families? And how do we reconcile the contradiction that facing a death sentence, even an unjust one, can paradoxically lead to a second chance at life?

Q&A with Fr. Philip Egitto & Director Linda Freund to follow.

Details

See the event listing at Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.

Originally published by Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty on 28 October 2026