Entries tagged with “Duane Owen”
Issues
Jun 12, 2023
Duane Owen, Sentenced by Non-Unanimous Jury, is Scheduled to be Florida’s Fourth Execution of the Year
Duane Owen is scheduled to be executed in Florida on June 15, 2023. If it occurs, his execution will be the fourth execution in Florida this year, after a three year pause in executions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Owen was convicted in 1986 of crimes that occurred in 1984. Mr. Owen’s attorneys have presented evidence that he is incompetent to be executed. They argued it was error for the Florida courts to find that “the psychiatrists that only briefly examined Owen were more credible…
Issues
Jun 29, 2020
Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of June 22, 2020
NEWS (6/26/20) — California: A California trial judge has accepted the January 29 recommendation by a Tulare County jury to sentence Hernan Rodriguez to death. The death sentence is the 12th DPIC is aware of so far in 2020, and only the second since mid-March, when the coronavirus pandemic suspended most court proceedings in capital cases nationwide. NEWS (6/25/20) — Florida: In a pair of unsigned opinions, the Florida Supreme Court has upheld the capital sentences of two more death-row…