On March 31, the State of Florida plans to execute James Aren Duckett, who has spent nearly four decades on death row for the 1987 murder of 11-year-old Teresa McAbee in Lake County. Mr. Duckett has maintained his innocence since the day he was arrested. Today, his attorneys argue that the case against him, built…
Last night the DeSantis administration killed its 31st person. Under a devastatingly beautiful sunset, Billy Kearse was executed for a panicked and impulsive split-second decision he made as a scared young Black teenager 35 years ago while driving home with a pizza for dinner. A decision reached only after he was pulled over on a…
STARKE, Fla. — Tonight, We, the People of the State of Florida, executed Billy Leon Kearse, an intellectually disabled Black man who was just 18 years and 84 days old at the time he made the single worst decision of his life. The murder of Sgt. Danny Parrish was a tragedy, and the loss experienced…
