Entries tagged with “Gov. Don Siegelman”

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Aug 20, 2025

Former Alabama Governor Urges Use of Clemency, Criticizes Florida’s Execution Process as ​“Shrouded in Secrecy”

In an August 14, 2025, op-ed in the *South Florida Sun Sentinel,* for­mer Alabama Governor Don Siegelman revealed he has​“lived to regret” not com­mut­ing death sen­tences while he was in office, and crit­i­cized Florida’s exe­cu­tion selec­tion process, cit­ing seri­ous con­cerns with secre­cy and racial bias. Writing about two sched­uled exe­cu­tions in Florida — Kayle Bates on August 19 and Curtis Windom on August 28 — Gov. Siegelman argues the cas­es sur­face sys­temic problems in…

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May 26, 2023

Former Republican and Democratic Governors from Alabama Critique State’s Death Penalty and Express Regret

“[W]e have come over time to see the flaws in our nation’s jus­tice sys­tem and to view the state’s death penal­ty laws in par­tic­u­lar as legal­ly and moral­ly trou­bling,” wrote two for­mer gov­er­nors of Alabama in an op-ed for the Washington Post. Republican Robert Bentley (pic­tured, right) and Democrat Don Siegelman (pic­tured, left) agree that the 146 peo­ple whose death sen­tences were imposed by non-unan­i­­mous juries or judi­cial over­ride should have their sentences…