Two Black Men Facing Execution Kayle Bates, a Black Muslim veteran, is scheduled to be executed one week from today — on Tuesday, August 19 at 6 pm ET. His attorneys have filed a civil rights lawsuit challenging Florida’s racially biased and unconstitutional death warrant selection process, arguing that the state disproportionately prioritizes cases involving…

Days after attorneys for Kayle Bates (Maud Dib Al Sharif Qu’un) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit exposing racial bias and unconstitutional arbitrariness in Florida’s execution warrant process, a series of new court filings have laid bare the depth of Governor Ron DeSantis’ misconduct, including retaliatory action, manipulated statistics, and an entrentched pattern of racial…

Shocking Development in Bates Case Last week, attorneys for Kayle Bates (Maud Dib Al Sharif Qu’un), a Black Muslim veteran, filed a civil rights lawsuit against Governor Ron DeSantis. The lawsuit challenges Florida’s racially biased and unconstitutional process for choosing who lives and who dies, and points out the overwhelming disparity of conducting executions involving…