Entries tagged with “Melvin Trotter”

Mar 03, 2026

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Calls Secrecy Around Florida’s Recent Spate of Executions ​“Troubling”

“By con­tin­u­ing to shroud its exe­cu­tions in secre­cy, Florida under­mines both the integri­ty of its own exe­cu­tion process and, poten­tial­ly, this Court’s abil­i­ty to ensure the State’s com­pli­ance with its con­sti­tu­tion­al oblig­a­tions.” —Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a February 24, 2026 *state­ment* accom­pa­ny­ing the denial of cer­tio­rari in the case of Melvin Trotter. Melvin Trotter, Ronnie Heath, and Frank Walls — the most recent of the twenty-one…