Entries tagged with “James Ford”
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…
May 28, 2025
The “Fiction of Agency”: Jeffrey Hutchinson Is the Latest of Many Executed After Attorneys Missed Deadlines to File Federal Appeals
On May 1, Jeffrey Hutchinson, a Gulf War veteran, was executed in Florida for the murders of his girlfriend and her three young children. As he fought behind enemy lines in some of the most dangerous regions on earth, bombs rattled and nerve gas corroded his brain, causing permanent damage that would contribute to the tragedy just a few years later.“His mind was a casualty, just like any limb lost in combat,” a group of 129 military veterans wrote in a letter…