Entries tagged with “Jeffrey Hutchinson”
Nov 10, 2025
New DPI Report Reveals Military Veterans are Overrepresented on Death Row and Juries Often Do Not Hear Critical Evidence of Military Service
As the United States prepares to observe Veterans Day 2025, the Death Penalty Information Center today released a new comprehensive report: *Forgotten Service, Lasting Wounds: Military Veterans and the Death Penalty*. The report reveals that approximately 200 military veterans await execution on death rows across the U.S., and one in seven executions since 1972 has been a military veteran. Many of the juries that sentenced these men and women to death never heard about…
Nov 06, 2025
Facts About the Death Penalty: Execution of Prisoners with Severe Mental Illness
In 2002, a Gallup poll found that 75% of Americans opposed executing individuals who have severe mental illnesses. Many people believe that the U.S. does not execute people who suffer from serious mental illness. This is only partially true. In fact, the Constitution bars the execution only of people who are legally deemed“insane” or mentally incompetent. But the legal standard for demonstrating mental incompetence is high and exemptions from execution for…
Aug 07, 2025
Florida’s Executions: Troubling Patterns of Secrecy and Inadequate Legal Representation
On July 31, 2025, the state of Florida executed its ninth person this year, Edward Zakrzewski, marking the highest number of executions in a single year in Florida in modern death penalty history. The haste with which Governor DeSantis is scheduling executions has prompted many questions and additional scrutiny about a process that is cloaked in secrecy and a decision-maker who is untroubled by the serious issues in many of the cases set for execution. ###…
May 28, 2025
The “Fiction of Agency”: Jeffrey Hutchinson Is the Latest of Many Executed After Attorneys Missed Deadlines to File Federal Appeals
On May 1, Jeffrey Hutchinson, a Gulf War veteran, was executed in Florida for the murders of his girlfriend and her three young children. As he fought behind enemy lines in some of the most dangerous regions on earth, bombs rattled and nerve gas corroded his brain, causing permanent damage that would contribute to the tragedy just a few years later.“His mind was a casualty, just like any limb lost in combat,” a group of 129 military veterans wrote in a letter…
Apr 29, 2025
Florida Court Refuses to Stop Execution for Mentally Ill Veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson
Jeffrey Hutchinson is scheduled to be executed in Florida on May 1, 2025, despite a longstanding mental illness and his attorney’s claim that he is mentally incompetent. On April 24, 2025, attorneys for the Gulf War veteran filed a motion in Bradford County Circuit Court seeking a stay of his scheduled execution and requesting an evidentiary hearing to assess their client’s competency. Mr. Hutchinson has suffered from a delusional disorder for decades, with a…