Entries tagged with “Anthony Wainwright”

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. ###…

Jun 11, 2025

Anthony Wainwright, Executed June 10 in Florida, Lost Federal Appeals Due to Lawyers’ Mistakes and Indifference and Was Denied Counsel of His Choice

When a lawyer makes a mis­take, who suf­fers the con­se­quences? The​“agency prin­ci­ple” says the client does, under the ratio­nale that clients choose their lawyers and autho­rize their actions. But courts uni­ver­sal­ly apply this prin­ci­ple to all attor­ney-client rela­tion­ships, includ­ing when indi­gent, iso­lat­ed death-sen­­tenced pris­on­ers are appoint­ed attor­neys by the state, with lit­tle or no means of con­trol­ling their lawyers’ actions. Many com­men­ta­tors have noted the…