Entries tagged with “Kenneth Rouse”
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 urging Gov. Ron DeSantis to halt…
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Oct 07, 2020
Groundbreaking ‘Racist Roots’ Project Exposes Racism Endemic in North Carolina’s Death Penalty
North Carolina’s death penalty is a weapon of social control rooted in a racist past. That is the message of a groundbreaking new collaborative project, Racist Roots: Origins of North Carolina’s Death Penalty, by the Durham-based defense organization Center for Death Penalty Litigation (CDPL). Through essays and academic articles containing in-depth analysis, photographs, archival news-clippings, poetry, and stirring personal narratives, the CDPL staff and a legion of notable contributors…