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Florida’s Record Pace of Executions Continues With Three More Scheduled This September Read More »

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Florida’s Record Pace of Executions Continues With Three More Scheduled This September

Florida’s Record Pace of Executions Continues With Three More Scheduled This September | Sustainable Action Now Sustainable Action Now Criminal Justice & Policy Developing Story Criminal Justice Florida’s Record Pace of Executions Continues With Three More Scheduled This September Governor Ron DeSantis has signed death warrants for three men whose cases span five decades, keeping […]

Florida Keeps Executing.The Rest of the Country Is Asking Why. Read More »

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Florida Keeps Executing.The Rest of the Country Is Asking Why.

William Silvia is gone. Three more warrants are signed. A conservative Republican wants to end the death penalty in Pennsylvania. And fifty years after Gregg v. Georgia, the conversation is finally changing. Florida Keeps Executing. The Rest of the Country Is Asking Why. ⚖️ SAN Death Penalty Report Florida Keeps Executing.The Rest of the Country

Florida’s Assembly Line of Death: The Week That Changed Everything Read More »

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Florida’s Assembly Line of Death: The Week That Changed Everything

🐆 FOUR PAWS · This Week The Leopard Who Was Labelled a “Problem Animal” Has Been Home for 20 Years Three stories from FOUR PAWS this week: a leopard who escaped death by luck, a big cat who destroyed a cardboard puzzle in record time, and a law so contradictory it has to be seen

Florida Executed Two Men on the Same Day. One May Have Been Innocent. Neither Should Be Dead. Read More »

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Florida Executed Two Men on the Same Day. One May Have Been Innocent. Neither Should Be Dead.

On July 28, 2026, the State of Florida executed two men on the same gurney, in the same room, by the same execution team, separated by six hours. James Duckett died at noon. Dominick Occhicone died that evening. The day became the first double execution in Florida in more than 60 years, carried out by

Florida Executed a 74-Year-Old Veteran Who Fed Squirrels and Watched for Eagles. We Should Not Have Let This Happen. Read More »

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Florida Executed a 74-Year-Old Veteran Who Fed Squirrels and Watched for Eagles. We Should Not Have Let This Happen.

On the night of July 14, 2026, the State of Florida executed Dennis Sochor. He was 74 years old. He was a United States Army veteran. He had spent forty years on death row, which means he had spent the substantial majority of his adult life inside Florida State Prison, waiting to find out whether

The Death Penalty at a Crossroads: Ohio’s Republican Governor Calls for Abolition While Florida Executes at a Record Pace Read More »

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The Death Penalty at a Crossroads: Ohio’s Republican Governor Calls for Abolition While Florida Executes at a Record Pace

Two things happened in the same week that together capture everything complicated and urgent about the state of capital punishment in America in 2026. In Columbus, Ohio, Republican Governor Mike DeWine stood before reporters, brought out charts and graphs, and announced that he now believes the death penalty should be abolished. He is 79 years

America’s Death Penalty Reckoning: Botched Executions, Racial Bias Challenges, and Growing Questions About Justice Read More »

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America’s Death Penalty Reckoning: Botched Executions, Racial Bias Challenges, and Growing Questions About Justice

The death penalty has long been defended by its supporters as the ultimate expression of justice, accountability, and public safety. Yet across the United States, recent developments are forcing a new and uncomfortable national conversation about whether capital punishment can ever truly meet those standards. In recent weeks alone, Americans have witnessed a halted execution

Florida’s Machinery of Death and the Crisis of Modern Capital Punishment: The Execution of Richard Knight Raises New Questions About Justice, Human Dignity, and State Power Read More »

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Florida’s Machinery of Death and the Crisis of Modern Capital Punishment: The Execution of Richard Knight Raises New Questions About Justice, Human Dignity, and State Power

There are moments when the death penalty stops feeling like an abstract political argument and instead becomes something brutally immediate, deeply human, and profoundly unsettling. Not because people suddenly forget the horrific crimes at the center of a case, but because the mechanics of state execution expose uncomfortable realities about power, certainty, constitutional integrity, and

The Fight to End the Death Penalty Continues: Why the 34th Annual DPF Awards Dinner Represents More Than a Ceremony in Los Angeles Read More »

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The Fight to End the Death Penalty Continues: Why the 34th Annual DPF Awards Dinner Represents More Than a Ceremony in Los Angeles

At a time when conversations surrounding justice, incarceration, state power, and human rights continue intensifying across the United States, one of the nation’s longest-running abolitionist gatherings is preparing to once again bring together advocates, faith leaders, artists, legal reformers, exonerees, organizers, and families united around a shared belief that the death penalty remains one of

A Turning Point in the Global Death Penalty Debate: Moral Authority, Legal Upheaval, and the Urgent Case for Abolition Read More »

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A Turning Point in the Global Death Penalty Debate: Moral Authority, Legal Upheaval, and the Urgent Case for Abolition

The international movement to end capital punishment has entered a decisive new phase, driven by a convergence of moral leadership, legal scrutiny, and mounting evidence of systemic failure. In a powerful and timely intervention, Pope Leo IV issued a video message reaffirming the Catholic Church’s unequivocal opposition to the death penalty, offering explicit support to