Entries tagged with “Frank Walls”

Executions

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…

Executions

Jan 07, 2026

New Report Examines Florida’s Unprecedented Execution Pace and Trends in 2025

The United States car­ried out 47 exe­cu­tions in 2025, and Florida car­ried out 19 — the high­est num­ber in state his­to­ry and more than dou­ble its pre­vi­ous mod­ern record, accord­ing to a year-end report from Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP). Executions in Florida — which aver­aged one exe­cu­tion every 16 days from February 2025 through December 2025 — account­ed for 40% of the 47 exe­cu­tions nation­wide, mak­ing Florida a clear out­lier in the use of the death…