Entries tagged with “Michael Bell”

Aug 07, 2025

Florida’s Executions: Troubling Patterns of Secrecy and Inadequate Legal Representation

On July 31, 2025, the state of Florida exe­cut­ed its ninth per­son this year, Edward Zakrzewski, mark­ing the high­est num­ber of exe­cu­tions in a sin­gle year in Florida in mod­ern death penal­ty his­to­ry. The haste with which Governor DeSantis is sched­ul­ing exe­cu­tions has prompt­ed many ques­tions and addi­tion­al scruti­ny about a process that is cloaked in secre­cy and a deci­­sion-mak­er who is untrou­bled by the seri­ous issues in many of the cas­es set for execution. ###…