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Nationwide, nine more executions are scheduled for this year, with more expected to be carried out as governors sign more death warrants.
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
DeSantis signed the Bates death warrant three days after the state executed Michael Bell in the 1993 murders of two people outside a Jacksonville bar.
—Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2025
Separately, a federal filing argued that the governor's unfettered discretion to sign death warrants violates death row inmates' constitutional rights to due process and had led to an arbitrary process for determining who lives and who dies.
—Arkansas Online, 25 June 2025
DeSantis signed the death warrant after the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 declined to take up an appeal by Bates related to a juror in his trial.
—Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2025
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
DeSantis signed the Bates death warrant three days after the state executed Michael Bell in the 1993 murders of two people outside a Jacksonville bar.
—Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2025
Separately, a federal filing argued that the governor's unfettered discretion to sign death warrants violates death row inmates' constitutional rights to due process and had led to an arbitrary process for determining who lives and who dies.
—Arkansas Online, 25 June 2025
DeSantis signed the death warrant after the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 declined to take up an appeal by Bates related to a juror in his trial.
—Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2025
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“Death warrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20warrant. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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