Entries tagged with “Mike Kehoe”
Dec 01, 2025
Facts About the Death Penalty – The Rarity of Clemency Grants
Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist once explained that executive clemency is intended to operate as the “fail safe” of the capital punishment system. It is the final opportunity, after all legal avenues have been exhausted, for an executive to decide whether to spare a prisoner from execution. Most grants of individual clemency come after consideration of one or more factors, including evidence of official misconduct or other unfair legal processes, ineffective assistance of counsel…
Upcoming Executions
,Oct 14, 2025
Missouri Governor Denies Clemency for Lance Shockley Despite Broad Bipartisan Support for Commutation of His Death Sentence
Update: Mr. Shockley was executed by lethal injection on October 14. He was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. Yesterday, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe denied clemency to Lance Shockley, who is scheduled for execution today at 6 p.m. However, a recent survey found that Missouri voters, by a bipartisan two-thirds majority, would prefer to see Mr. Shockley’s death sentence commuted. Dr. Nicholas Scurich of the University of California, Irvine, found that 65% of the 440 registered Missouri voters…
Executions
Botched Executions
,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 discredited “Shaken Baby Syndrome Hypothesis” (SBS) and the CCA granted relief to Mr.