Ron DeSantis has issued another death warrant, this time scheduling the execution of Thomas Overton for November 19. Florida's status as an extreme outlier continues to grow. If the execution is carried out, Mr. Overton will be the 15th person this year to be executed despite prosecutors being unable to obtain a unanimous jury vote for death. The jury votes in his case were 8-4 and 9-3. In 2026, that would not be a death sentence in any other state. @FLDeathPenalty @FADPorg @uscedp #Florida #deathpenalty

A new article by Tim Lyman, recently published in the Advances in Social Science Research Journal, argues that prior statistical studies understate the extent of racial disparities in homicide prosecutions, particularly in Black defendant/White victim cases. Its discussion of statistical methods can be challenging to read, but bear with it. Here's a link. scholarpublishing.org/journa… @uscedp @NAACP_LDF @southerncenter @eji_org #deathpenalty

International human rights law prohibits extraditing, deporting, or otherwise transferring a person in custody of a country that does not have the death penalty to a country that does unless the country seeking custody provides assurances that the death penalty will not be sought or carried out. That is the policy of Australia and New Zealand, every European democracy, and every country in the western hemisphere that does not have the death penalty. What Italy required as a condition of extraditing Lee Gilley to the United States is what all the countries whose company the U.S. would normally like to keep routinely require. The non-transference doctrine was set out in a decision by the U.N. Committee on Human Rights in 2003 in the case of Philadelphia death row prisoner Roger Judge. You can read the decision in Judge v. Canada here. files.deathpenaltyinfo.org/d…. @TexDefender @TCADPdotORG @uscedp @amnesty @hrw @UNHumanRights @IACHumanRights

.@FADPorg released this statement in connection with William Reaves’ execution. It says, in part: “There are two stories of William’s life. In the prevailing narrative, he’s a monster who shot a good cop as the man begged for his life. In the untold story, he’s a victim of circumstance—a sweet kid from a small town who was sent to war, trained to kill in the service of his country, and returned home a psychological ruin. Both stories are true. Only the first has been given moral weight in popular memory. The second—the tale of William the war hero—explains his crime.” @FLDeathPenalty @uscedp #Florida #deathpenalty

My note: Prosecutors were unable to persuade Mr. Reaves’ jury to unanimously vote for death. He never should have been on death row, let alone executed. 14 of the 18 men Florida has executed this year were sentenced to death despite non-unanimous votes by the sentencing jury. That’s 78% of the state’s executions. Florida is not only an extreme outlier in the number of people it executes, it is an extreme outlier in how the people it executes got to death row in the first place. @FLDeathPenalty @FADPorg @uscedp @CCATDP @ABAdueprocess @amnesty @hrw @IACHumanRights @WCADP @AssoECPM @DeathPenaltyAct #deathpenalty

William Reaves' execution will be the 18th in Florida this year, and the 37th since Jan. 1 , 2025. Before the current execution meltdown, Florida had averaged 2.3 executions per year since carrying out its first execution in 1979. Seven states account for 75% of all executions conducted in the U.S. since the 1970s. One of them, Virginia, no longer has a death penalty, but after tonight, the remaining six states will account for 30 of the 32 executions carried out in the U.S. this year (93.75%). The rest of the country is near historic lows for executions. @uscedp @CCATDP @DeathPenaltyAct @amnesty @WCADP @AssoECPM #deathpenalty

Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied William Reaves' application to stay his execution, which is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. Eastern today in Florida. supremecourt.gov/orders/cour… @FLDeathPenalty @FADPorg @uscedp

The Florida Supreme Court has granted a new trial to death-row prisoner Henry Jones, finding that the prosecution unconstitutionally withheld evidence regarding crime-scene DNA that was inconsistent with the prosecution's version of the case. flcourts-media.flcourts.gov/… @FADPorg @FLDeathPenalty @fjp_org @uscedp #deathpenalty

The only demographic that supports livestreaming the proposed firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan is MAGA Republican men. 69% of MAGA Republican women oppose it, as do 79% of traditional Republicans (i.e., non-MAGA), 83% of Independents and 91% of Democrats. Of course, there won't be any execution if Hasan pursues his habeas corpus appeals. In that case, he is entitled to a stay of execution as a matter of law and his appeals will not be resolved until long after the end of the current presidential administration. @washingtonpost @uscedp @CCATDP @just_security #deathpenalty

On @KQED's "Forum" broadcast yesterday — @CAgovernor @GavinNewsom Considers Commuting Death Row Sentences. kqed.org/forum/2010101915661…. @mkimreporter and @CalMatters's #CaylaMihalovich interview the @MarshallProj's @MauriceChammah, Natasha Minsker from the California Anti Death Penalty Coalition', and Alexa Hansen, founder of Victim Advocate Angels. @uscedp @DPFocus @SmartJusticeCA, @ACLU_NorCal @ACLU_SoCal @ellabakercenter @amnestyusa #California #deathpenalty