TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As Florida accelerates executions at a pace unseen in modern history, multiple death row prisoners with execution dates this month have filed claims with the Florida Supreme Court raising serious concerns about the State’s repeated failure to follow its own execution protocol. Courts have long held that under the Eighth Amendment, execution…
Yesterday afternoon, Governor DeSantis signed a death warrant for Billy Leon Kearse. His execution is scheduled for March 3 at 6 pm. That makes three people on death watch. Three executions scheduled in just over three weeks. All three death watch cells are full. It is an execution assembly line. And it is still January.…
At 3:37pm yesterday, I was preparing a fact sheet for legislators when I received the text message I had been expecting but dreading. It came from a lawyer that our team has worked with several times over the past year, and it read: “Warrant for Melvin Trotter, 02/24.” Over the next few hours before the…
