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Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...
A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis allows more methods of execution for people convicted of capital crimes.
Glen Rogers, convicted of murder in Florida and California, is scheduled for execution on May 15, 2025. Rogers' attorneys are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that his medical ...
The ACLU opposes the death penalty in all circumstances, and looks forward to the day when the United States joins the majority of nations in abolishing it.”[23] There are five methods currently ...
At every Florida execution — including Jeffrey Hutchinson’s execution set for Thursday — church-goers and members of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty gather to seek an end to ...
Last week, the Florida Supreme Court turned down appeals from Tanzi's attorneys, including a request for alternate execution methods such as a firing squad or gas. Tanzi's last appeal was denied ...
A new bill in the Florida House of Representatives, HB 903, would allow for execution methods other than electrocution and lethal injection, as long as they are not deemed unconstitutional.
Florida passed a similar law in 2023 ... just became the ONLY state to make death by firing squad the primary method of execution,” Little, a two-term Republican, said in his statement.
Jonathan Martin, R-Fort Myers, aims to protect Florida's status as a death penalty state if certain execution methods like electrocution or legal injection are made unconstitutional by the Supreme ...
In debate, Senator Melissa Wintrow ... less than a handful of Senate Republicans to oppose a controversial execution methods bill, which authorized the firing squad as Idaho's primary method ...
A bill to allow the death penalty ... and long debate and discussion,” Wintrow said. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2008 blocked death penalties for child rape in Kennedy v. Louisiana. Florida ...