Entries tagged with “Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys”
Nov 09, 2026
Florida Executes Jesse Guardado Amid “Deeply Troubling” Attempts to Change Expiration Dates on Lethal Injection Drugs
Jesse Guardado was executed on November 5, 2026, but ahead of his execution, a federal appellate judge found it “deeply troubling” that the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) used white-out to change the expiration date of drugs used in lethal injection executions. In September 2026, Mr. Guardado’s legal team filed a suit against the state questioning whether the DOC has been using expired drugs in its executions. Governor Ron DeSantis signed an execution warrant for Mr. Guardado a week…
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,Nov 03, 2026
Three Executions on November 5 Highlight Concerns about Fairness and Constitutionality of Death Sentences
NOVEMBER 6, 2026 UPDATE: All three scheduled executions took place on November 5, 2026. On November 5, three people will be put to death in a single day across the United States, all by lethal injection. Indiana officials will execute Jeffrey Weisheit; Florida officials will execute Jesse Guardado; and Alabama officials will execute Michael Taylor. All three cases raise serious questions regarding the fairness of their trials and the constitutionality of their executions. This is the second…
Sep 16, 2025
Two Scheduled Executions of People with Intellectual Disability in Florida Raise Serious Concerns
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2002 decision in Atkins v. Virginia established that the Eighth Amendment prohibits executing people with intellectual disability. The Court later clarified that rigid IQ cutoffs were not permissible and also required states to consider meaningful evidence of intellectual disability, including scientifically valid expert testimony and adaptive functioning deficits. Despite this unequivocal constitutional protection, two death-sentenced prisoners — David Pittman and Victor…
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,Aug 14, 2024
Florida’s Governor DeSantis Schedules First Execution of 2024 for Dozier Reform School Survivor After 10-Month Execution Hiatus
On July 29, 2024, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the state’s first execution warrant of 2024, scheduling an execution date for Loran Cole (pictured) in just thirty days, on August 29, 2024. Mr. Cole’s execution warrant comes nearly ten months after Florida’s last execution, which was the last of the state’s six executions carried out in 2023. Mr. Cole was sentenced to death in 1995 for the murder of a Florida State University student in Marion County, Florida. Following the issuance of…