Justice Sonia Sotomayor has raised concerns about the lack of transparency in Florida’s execution protocols, warning that the state’s secrecy laws may place people on death row at risk of Eighth Amendment violations.
Texas death row prisoner Andre Thomas, who has a long history of severe mental illness, has had his competency hearing postponed due to concerns that he is too mentally ill to be safely transported to court.
Andre Thomas, one of the most severely mentally ill individuals on death row in Texas, has had his competency hearing postponed due to his mental condition, which has been deemed too severe for him to be safely transported for the proceedings.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal challenging a Florida Supreme Court ruling in which a Florida man on death row argued that the state’s lethal injection protocol risked a botched execution, and the man was executed later that day.
California issued a stay of execution for Michael Angelo Morales in 2006, sparking a debate about the ethical implications of physician participation in executions and leading to a twenty-year moratorium on the death penalty in the state.
Alabama death penalty advocates are urging Governor Kay Ivey to halt the execution of 75-year-old Charles “Sonny” Burton, a wheelchair-bound non-shooter, arguing that his case presents even more compelling circumstances than Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s recent clemency decision for Tremane Wood.
Ralph Menzies, convicted of murder in 1986, has been deemed incompetent for execution due to his advanced dementia, raising constitutional concerns about the planned execution and prompting a competency hearing in December 2025.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to stay the execution of Anthony Boyd, who was put to death in Alabama using nitrogen gas, calling it “torturous suffocation” and a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment.
Florida is leading a coalition of 15 state attorneys general urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to support executions for pedophiles, in defiance of the 2008 Kennedy v. Louisiana Supreme Court ruling that bars the death penalty for child rapists.
Corinna Lane, a former prosecutor, discusses the flaws in the US death penalty system, the pharmaceutical crisis that halted lethal injection, and the humanity of those on death row in her book Secrets of the Killing State.
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