Entries tagged with “Richard Djerf”

Jan 21, 2026

New Autopsy Report Renews Concerns about Arizona’s Execution Protocol

An autop­sy of Richard Djerf, who was exe­cut­ed in Arizona in October 2025, has renewed con­cerns about the state’s lethal injec­tion exe­cu­tion pro­to­col and the state’s efforts to address long­stand­ing exe­cu­­tion-relat­ed con­cerns. Mr. Djerf was con­vict­ed for the September 1993 mur­ders of four mem­bers of the Luna fam­i­ly in Phoenix. The autop­sy, con­duct­ed by Pinal County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. John Hu, estab­lished for the first time that med­ical personnel encountered…

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Nov 24, 2025

18th Florida Death Row Prisoner Set for Execution in 2025 Waives Appeals, Fifth Volunteer of 2025

Mark Geralds has waived all pend­ing and future legal pro­ceed­ings in his case and is sched­uled to be exe­cut­ed by Florida offi­cials on December 9, 2025. Mr. Geralds elect­ed to for­go his appeals just days after Governor Ron DeSantis signed his death war­rant, join­ing a doc­u­ment­ed group of death row pris­on­ers who have also decid­ed not to try and pre­vent their exe­cu­tions. Mr. Geralds​“indi­cat­ed that his wish was to for­go all war­rant pro­ceed­ings and allow the execution to…

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Oct 08, 2025

Upcoming Executions Illustrate Persistent Themes and Concerns Around the Death Penalty

**October 9, 2025 UPDATE****: On October** **9****,** **2025****, just a week before his sched­uled exe­cu­tion, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (****CCA****) grant­ed** **Robert Roberson** **a stay of exe­cu­tion and remand­ed his case to the dis­trict court for fur­ther con­sid­er­a­tion of his request for relief based upon relief offered in a sim­i­lar case,** ***Ex parte Roark******.*** **Like Mr. Roberson’s case,** ***Ex parte Roark*****, also involved a con­vic­tion based the now…