Entries tagged with “Kayle Bates”

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…