Entries tagged with “Ron McAndrew”
Executions
Jul 09, 2026
Article of Interest: A Close Look at Florida’s Execution Spree
A June 30 article by Pamela Colloff, co-published in ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, investigates Florida’s record-setting pace of executions over the past 18 months, even as the rest of the country largely “abandons” the death penalty. Ms. Colloff uses data from the Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) to emphasize Florida’s outlier status, while exploring the political implications of the execution spree and its impact on the people involved. As DPI has documented, executions…
Upcoming Executions
,Feb 24, 2026
Scheduled Execution of Billy Kearse Renews Constitutional Alarms About Pace of Executions in Florida
“I am extremely concerned by the recent pace of death warrants and the speed with which the parties and involved entities must carry out their respective duties.” Florida Supreme Court Justice Jorge Labarga wrote those words in 2023, a year in which Florida conducted six executions with an average warrant period of 36 days. Such a pace was already straining the state’s judicial, legal, and prison systems. But in 2025, under the sole authority of Governor Ron DeSantis, the state tripled that…
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 penalty in the United States.
Conditions on Death Row
,Dec 05, 2024
Hidden Casualties: Executions Harm Mental Health of Prison Staff
In March, Oklahoma officials asked the state’s high court to increase the time between executions from 60 to 90 days, citing the “lasting trauma” and “psychological toll” of executions on corrections officers. But Judge Gary Lumpkin dismissed these concerns, telling officials that prison staff needed to “suck it up” and “man up.” A few weeks later, Brian Dorsey was executed in Missouri after the governor ignored the pleas of an unprecedented 72 corrections officers to grant him clemency. “We…
Executions
Methods of Execution
,Apr 27, 2023
New Podcast: Discussion with Ron McAndrew, Former Florida Warden Who Presided Over Executions
In the latest episode of Discussions with DPIC, Anne Holsinger, Managing Director of DPIC, interviews Ron McAndrew (pictured), a former Florida Prison Warden who witnessed executions using electrocution and lethal injection in Florida and Texas. He offers reflections on the negative impact that executions have on the families of both the victim and the condemned, the correctional officers, and on himself. Mr. McAndrew discusses his responsibilities as a warden and his involvement in carrying…
Research
New Voices
,Mar 03, 2023
NEW VOICES: Former Warden Shares Traumatic Experience of Overseeing Executions
In a recent op-ed published in the Miami Herald, former Florida warden Ron McAndrew wrote about his experience with electrocutions and lethal injections in Florida and Texas. He witnessed botched executions and observed the psychological effects that carrying out the death penalty has on the correctional officers involved. He noted, “Each time an execution was scheduled, I worked with my staff to manage the process in minute-by-minute detail. Despite this meticulous preparation, one execution…
Research
New Voices
,Nov 22, 2022
NPR Investigation: The Death Penalty’s Second Casualty — the Execution Staff
Corrections personnel who participate in executing prisoners experience emotional trauma so profound that it changes their views about capital punishment, a National Public Radio (NPR) investigation has found. For stories broadcast on All Things Considered and posted on NPR’s website, reporter Chiara Eisner (pictured) interviewed 26 current or former corrections workers and others who had been involved in executions carried out by seventeen states and the federal government. “Most of the…