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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Statement from defense counsel — Court Schedules October 16 Execution for Robert Roberson, Innocent Man Convicted in Texas “Shaken Baby” Case. docs.google.com/document/d/1... @texasdefender.bsky.social @wtiusa.bsky.social @innocenceproject.bsky.social @cifsjustice.org #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The Court also denied relief to Toney Davis in a successive post-conviction proceeding that had raised issues based upon newly obtained microscopic slides from the autopsy that challenged the listed cause of death. supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/down... @fadp.bsky.social #Florida #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Donald Williams was resentenced to death after an initial nonunanimous 9-3 death sentence. At resentencing, he waived both a jury and the presentation of mitigating evidence. The court upheld his sentence. supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/down... @fadp.bsky.social #Florida #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Timothy Fletcher was originally sentenced to death despite a nonunanimous 8-4 jury vote. In his resentencing, the new jury found no mitigating circumstances and the judge imposed death. The court affirmed. supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/down... @fadp.bsky.social #Florida #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The Florida Supreme Court has issued opinions affirming the convictions and sentences of three death-row prisoners. supremecourt.flcourts.gov/Opinions/Mos... @fadp.bsky.social #TimothyFletcher #DonaldWilliams #ToneyDavis #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Florida has executed Michael Bell. Death was pronounced at 6:25 p.m. Eastern. He was the 26th execution in 2025. 25 of those executions have been in jurisdictions that, as states or territories, practiced slavery. @fadp.bsky.social #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Michael Bell's petitions for review and applications to stay tonight's execution in Florida. supremecourt.gov/orders/court... supremecourt.gov/orders/court... @fadp.bsky.social @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social @8thamendment.org #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Mr. Bell’s lawyers filed this application for stay of execution in connection with their petition to review his case. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... @fadp.bsky.social #Florida #MichaelBell #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

His petition for writ of certiorari asks SCOTUS to review the Florida federal court’s refusal to consider new evidence that prosecutors had wrongfully withheld in his case. Here’s a link to the petition. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... @fadp.bsky.social #MichaelBell #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Yesterday, Michael Bell’s lawyers filed a second petition asking SCOTUS to stay today’s scheduled execution to review his case. supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?... @fadp.bsky.social #Florida #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The Florida Attorney General’s office filed its brief in opposition to a stay of execution under a separate docket number. Here’s that filing. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... @fadp.bsky.social #MichaelBell #SCOTUS #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Yesterday, Florida prosecutors filed this brief in opposition to his pleadings. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... @fadp.bsky.social #MichaelBell #SCOTUS #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Mr. Bell’s cert petition presents the following question regarding the state court’s denial of his claim that his conviction and sentence were the product of official misconduct. @fadp.bsky.social #MichaelBell #SCOTUS #Florida #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

On July 10, Michael Bell’s lawyers filed this petition in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the Court to review his case. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... @fadp.bsky.social #Florida #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Here is an update on the status of Michael Bell’s filings in the U.S. Supreme Court in advance of tomorrow’s scheduled execution. supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?... @fadp.bsky.social #Florida #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld the denial of habeas corpus relief for Arizona death-row prisoner Tracy Hampton. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op... @azdeathpenalty.bsky.social #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A split panel of the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia Circuit has put the death penalty back on the table in the Guantanamo 9/11 trial, upholding then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's revocation of the GTMO plea deals. media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc... @gitmowatch.bsky.social

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The U.S. has now reached 50 death warrants setting execution dates for 2025. 25 have been carried out and 9 are currently pending. Here is the state-by-state status of those warrants. @assoecpm.bsky.social @amnesty.org @8thamendment.org @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Here is the current U.S. death warrant breakdown by month. We have been seeing around 60-65 death warrants per year over the past decade, so we can expect another 10-15 warrants to be issued in addition to the 9 that are currently pending. @8thamendment.org @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Governor Mike DeWine issued reprieves for the two remaining 2025 death warrants in Ohio, rescheduling those executions for 2028. So Ohio will officially have no executions this year. @assoecpm.bsky.social @amnesty.org @8thamendment.org @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

With the new Alabama and Florida death warrants, here is the current schedule of executions in the U.S. through September. @assoecpm.bsky.social @amnesty.org @8thamendment.org @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Florida Supreme Court upholds death penalty for Scottie Allen, who represented himself at trial and presented no evidence or argument to spare his life. acis-api.flcourts.gov/courts/68f02... @fadp.bsky.social

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Nearly all capital prosecutions for non-lethal sex crimes were in former slave states. Nearly 90% of the defendants in those cases were black. So this should be no surprise: Dimeco Henderson is black and he is being capitally prosecuted in Florida. @fadp.bsky.social @legaldefensefund.bsky.social

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Thank you to @justadcohen.bsky.social and the Marshall Project for including the Death Penalty Policy Project substack post on Pennsylvania's history of wrongful executions in this morning's Opening Statement. You can read our story here: dppolicy.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

In an unpublished per curiam opinion the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed the district court's denial of Florida death-row prisoner Thomas Overton's habeas corpus petition. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/unp... @fadp.bsky.social #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has affirmed the district court's denial of Arkansas death-row prisoner Roderick Rankin's habeas petition without an evidentiary hearing. ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/25/06... #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The Delaware Senate's Executive Committee has voted to recommend senate passage of HB 35, to amend the state constitution to prohibit the death penalty. The vote was 4 favorable, 1 for consideration of the merits. The full Senate is scheduled to vote on the bill on Monday. @8thamendment.org

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The Missouri Supreme Court has set Lance Shockley's execution date for October 14, 2025. www.courts.mo.gov/fv/c/SC90286... madpmo.org #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The @aclu.org has issued a new report on discrrimination in death penalty jury selection — FATAL FLAWS: Revealing the Racial and Religious Gerrymandering of the Capital Jury. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads... @dpfocus.bsky.social @smartjusticeca.bsky.social @fadp.bsky.social KSabolition.org nccadp.org

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

By a vote of 28-12, the Delaware House of Representatives passed HB35, an amendment to the state constitution to prohibit imposition of the death penalty. legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/1... @8thamendment.org @aclude.bsky.social

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The Supreme Court has denied Stephen Stanko's application to stay today's scheduled execution. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed the denial of habeas relief for Nevada death-row prisoner Michael Hogan, ruling that post-conviction counsel's ineffective representation impeded his presentation of issues to the state courts. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The bill to abolish Pennsylvania's death penalty received a boost this week from an unexpected source: the United Auto Workers union. @uaw.org Region9 has included death-penalty repeal in its lobbying efforts this week in Harrisburg. x.com/UAWregion9/s... @padp.bsky.social

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Eight U.S. states have scheduled executions for June, 6 of which remain pending. Here is the current schedule through August. More warrants are expected over the summer. @fadp.bsky.social @scadeathpenalty.bsky.social otse.org @8thamendment.org @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Commentary by former California Supreme Court research attorney Jason R. Marks — California's death penalty does not work. www.dailyjournal.com/articles/385... @dpfocus.bsky.social @smartjusticeca.bsky.social [PAYWALL]

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Scott Panetti — a severely mentally ill man whose paranoid delusions led to landmark rulings on incompetency to be executed — has died after 30 years on Texas death row. @texasdefender.bsky.social #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott panders about the death penalty after jet ski accident kills air force cadet candidate. www.msn.com/en-us/news/c... @texasdefender.bsky.social

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The Florida Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions and death sentences imposed on Mark Wilson by a Putnam County jury for the murders of his girlfriend’s nephews. supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/down... @fadp.bsky.social #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has denied Texas death-row prisoner John Rubio permission to appeal the district court’s denial of his habeas corpus petition challenging his conviction and death sentence. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unp... @texasdefender.bsky.social #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

11 states have issued death warrants and 9 have carried out executions so far in 2025. But judicial refusal to enforce the constitution has also been a significant driver of the execution surge. In 19 of the 23 cases in which judicial intervention was possible (82.6%), courts have done nothing.

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Today's execution of Oscar Smith in Tennessee was the fifth in the U.S. in May. Another five execution dates are currently pending in June. Here is the current execution schedule in the U.S. (through July). @assoecpm.bsky.social @8thamendment.org @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Oscar Smith was the 19th person executed in the U.S. in 2025, with 10 execution dates pending and more expected. (The scheduled Ohio executions will not be carried out.) Here is a state-by-state breakdown of the status of the 2025 death warrants. @assoecpm.bsky.social @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Equal Standards for Equal Protection: Revisiting Race Discrimination in Jury Selection After Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/FriedYLJ... @yalelawjournal.bsky.social @legaldefensefund.bsky.social @eji.org #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Defense counsel, @kelleyjhenry.bsky.social issued a statement saying "There is no principled reason to allow the State to resume executions before the court has an opportunity to hear all of the evidence" in the upcoming federal trial on Tennessee's execution protocol. Here's the full quote.

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

That previous link is to the denial of a stay of execution from a second cert petition that Benjamin Ritchie's lawyers filed earlier today. Justices Sotomayor and Jackson dissented. SCOTUS also denied Mr. Ritchie's first cert petition and stay application. supremecourt.gov/orders/court... #Indiana

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution to Benjamin Ritchie, who is scheduled to be put to death in Indiana just past midnight Central time. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

On appeal, the Arizona Supreme Court holds that for a person to be convicted of the arson of an occupied structure, the structure has actually got to be occupied. (Hard to believe, but the trial court and the intermediate appeals court got this wrong.) www.azcourts.gov/Portals/0/Op...

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has denied a stay of execution to Texas death-row prisoner Matthew Johnson. ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub... @texasdefender.bsky.social #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Benjamin Ritchie's appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit was docketed shortly after 1:00 p.m. Eastern. His appeal brief was docketed at 9:02 p.m. The Circuit has directed Indiana prosecutors to respond by 2:00 p.m. Sunday. #deathpenalty

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Robert Dunham @rdunhamdp.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

An Indiana federal district court today denied Mr. Ritchie a stay of execution to litigate this issue but granted a certificate of appealability, finding that the "the issues presented were adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further." #BenjaminRitchie #deathpenalty

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