Supreme Court Denies Gregory’s Death-Penalty Appeal for 2007 Murders in...
William Gregory, now 30, was sentenced to death in 2011, for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Skyler Dawn Meekins, then 17, and her boyfriend Daniel Arthur Dyer, then 22, as they slept, and Skyler's...
View ArticleIt Ain’t Texas: Florida Supreme Court Reverses Two Death Sentences, Citing...
In two separate decisions that illustrate the fallibility of death sentences, the Florida Supreme Court this week overturned the death sentences of Michael Shellito, 37, and Ralston Davis, 28, ruling...
View ArticleCabinet Passes, for Now, on Pardoning Marissa Alexander, Pending Stand Your...
Alexander, a 32-year-old mother of three, was sentenced to 20 years in prison last year after firing a shot into a wall during a dispute with her abusive husband, a case that stands in sharp contrast...
View ArticleEric Holder Takes on the “War on Drugs,” Mandatory Sentences and Epidemic...
Attorney general Eric Holder on Monday delivered a seminal speech outlining a plan to revamp federal drug policy and incarceration rates of non-violent and elderly offenders, and urging Congress to...
View ArticleStand Your Ground Special Session: Florida Democrats Invoke Unique Tactic in...
Vastly outnumbered Democrats have a week to convince enough Republicans lawmakers to support a special session of the Legislature on the Stand Your Ground law. The Secretary of State's office has to...
View ArticleAfter Two Stays, Supreme Court Clears Marshall Lee Gore For Year’s Fourth...
Rejecting arguments that he should avoid lethal injection because he is insane, the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday approved the execution of Marshall lee Gore, convicted of killing two women in 1988...
View ArticleOnly in Florida: Attorney General Bondi Reschedules Execution to Avoid...
Marshall Lee Gore was to be executed the evening of Sept. 10 until Attorney General Bondi rescheduled the killing so it wouldn't conflict with her "campaign kickoff" fundraiser in Tampa. She now says...
View ArticleFast-Tracking Executions Proves Slower than Expected Under “Timely Justice Act”
The new law designed to fast-track executions in Florida, called the Timely Justice Act, will not spark a flurry of executions after all even as 132 convicts have been certified as being partially...
View ArticleDarius Kimbrough, 19 Years on Death Row for Murder of Denise Collins, Is...
Darius Kimbrough, who raped, beat and murdered 28-year-old Denise Collins in her Orlando apartment in 1991, is being executed by lethal injection at Florida's Starke prison at 6 p.m. Tuesday, after 19...
View ArticleFlorida Supreme Court Stays Execution, Raising Questions About Cruelty of...
A 5-2 Florida Supreme Court vote put the execution of convicted murderer Askari Abdullah Muhammad on hold Monday to consider claims that the three-drug cocktail used to put inmates to death could cause...
View ArticleScott Signs 14th Death Warrant: Juan Carlos Chavez, Murderer of 9-Year-Old...
Juan Carlos Chavez, will be executed on Feb. 12. Scott's order comes less than a year after the death of Martha Ryce, who dedicated her life to advocate for missing children after the murder of her...
View ArticleAskari Muhammad Is Executed After 38 Years on Death Row and Numerous Legal...
Muhammad was sentenced to death in 1975 for the murder in July 1974 of Sydney and Lillian Gans near Miami, and, after that sentencing was thrown out, sentenced to death for the murder of prison guard...
View ArticleConvicted in Trooper’s Murder, Paul Howell Will Be Put to Death on Feb. 26 in...
Howell was convicted in 1994 in the 1992 murder of Florida Highway Patrol trooper Jimmy Fulford in 1992 when a bomb Howell manufactured exploded in the trooper's hands after a traffic stop.
View ArticleRarely Punished, Guards May Be Responsible for Half of Sexual Assaults in...
The federal report is based on data from all of the nation’s federal and state prisons as well as many county jails. It shows more than 8,000 reports of abuse each year between 2009 and 2011, up 11...
View ArticleDeath Penalty’s Latest Mutation: Experimenting on Human Beings
The decision to seek the death penalty simply can’t be justified either by society’s or individuals’ desire for revenge, argues Steve Robinson. Were that the case, we could issue baseball bats to...
View ArticleWith 132 Death Row Inmates Readied for Execution, Lawyers Contest Fast-Track...
More than 150 lawyers and Death Row inmates are challenging the so-called Timely Justice Act, signed by Gov. Rick Scott in June, intended to speed up executions. Lawyers argue it violates the...
View ArticleGrim Reaping: Gov. Rick Scott Now Florida’s Record Holder For Most 1st Term...
Juan Carlos Chavez's execution last week was the 13th on Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s watch — a record among first-term Florida governors since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, and a record...
View ArticleLife Without Parole for Juveniles: Florida Struggles to Comply With Supreme...
Florida sentences more juveniles to life in prison without parole than any other state, but the pressure is on the Legislature this year to comply with restrictive U.S. Supreme Court rulings because...
View ArticleReplacing Salisbury Steak With Sardines, Florida Prisons’ Kosher Option...
Inmates contend that the peanut butter, sardines and cabbage served up daily by the Florida Department of Corrections are designed to discourage them from signing up for the kosher meals or to punish...
View ArticleGov. Scott Sticking By Lethal Injection Formula Despite Gruesome Execution in...
A new report issued by the Constitution Project on Wednesday recommends that states like Florida scrap the three-drug lethal injection cocktail that resulted in a botched execution in Oklahoma last...
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