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,Oct 16, 2026
William Reaves, Vietnam Veteran Whose Jury Did Not Learn Critical Mitigation Evidence about His Service-Related Injury, is Set for Execution in Florida
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has scheduled the execution of William Reaves, a 77-year-old Vietnam veteran, for October 20. Mr. Reaves was sentenced to death for the 1986 shooting death of Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Raczkoski. In a recent op-ed in Slate, Chance Meyer, one of Mr. Reaves’ former attorneys, writes that the jury that recommended his death sentence never heard expert testimony about the role Mr. Reaves’ combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder played in the commission of his…