Associated PressSeptember 15, 2020
8min541
The country has grappled with criminal justice and police reform in recent months.
Tag: Death Penalty Information Center
Associated PressSeptember 15, 2020
Tamara LushJanuary 25, 2020
7min365
“No one knows how broadly the court will attempt to apply it."
Mitch PerryJuly 19, 2017
5min1628
Florida death row inmate Ralph Wright Jr. was released from state prison Tuesday, two months after the state Supreme Court exonerated him in the 2007 killings of his ex-girlfriend and their baby boy. The release of the former Air Force Sergeant makes him Florida’s 27th exonerated death row survivor, and the 159th person exonerated from death […]
Martin DyckmanJanuary 14, 2016
9min270
Nothing else that government does costs as much as the death penalty in order to accomplish so little. That ought to concern even the most conservative legislators as they cope with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision Tuesday, in Hurst v. Florida, that the state’s capital sentencing process is unconstitutional. The choice now is to […]
Martin DyckmanJanuary 13, 20169min197
Nothing else that government does costs as much as the death penalty in order to accomplish so little. This ought to concern even the most conservative legislators as they cope with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision Tuesday, in Hurst v. Florida, that the state’s capital sentencing process is unconstitutional. The choice now is to […]
Mitch PerryDecember 1, 2014
4min148
Governor Rick Scott on Monday signed a death warrant for 42-year old Johnny Shane Normandy, who was found guilty of committing first-degree murder and sexual battery during a home-invasion robbery in 1993 in Escambia County. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection on January 15. The execution would be the 21st in the Rick […]