US EditionThe Scoop: Wed. Aug. 20, 2025 Tampa Bay and Florida Headlines by WMNF
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Former Alabama Governor Urges Use of Clemency, Criticizes Florida’s Execution Process as “Shrouded in Secrecy” | Death Penalty Information Center
In an August 14, 2025, op-ed in the *South Florida Sun Sentinel,* former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman revealed he has “lived to regret” not commuting death sentences while he was in office, and criticized Florida’s execution selection process, citing serious concerns with secrecy and racial bias. Writing about two scheduled executions in Florida — Kayle Bates on August 19 and Curtis Windom on August 28 — Gov. Siegelman argues …
The Scoop: Wed. Aug. 20, 2025 Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF
Florida executes a record tenth person this year Kayle Bates, convicted of abducting a woman from a Florida Panhandle insurance office and killing her, received a lethal injection Tuesday evening in the state’s record 10th execution this year. Dems lead in registrations for two races in September Democrats hold major advantages in voter registration in Orange County’s Senate District 15 and House District 40 heading into special elections on Sep…
The U.S. state of Florida executed on Tuesday, with a lethal injection, Kayle Bates, a 67-year-old ex-military man who had been convicted of murder and had been on death row for more than four decades. With this execution, there are already ten those carried out by Florida in the first eight months of 2025; the previous one, just three weeks ago. The state—which concentrates more than a third of all capital punishments recorded in the United Sta…
A Florida prisoner convicted of kidnapping and subsequent murder of a woman has been executed this Tuesday by lethal injection, raising to ten the death sentences carried out in 2025 in this state. With his death, there are already ten people executed in the state since the beginning of 2025, thus surpassing his record of executions in a single year. It is also planned that next month two other prisoners will lose their lives in these conditions…
A record has been broken in the US state of Florida. On Tuesday, the tenth execution of the year was carried out there. It's more than any other year before, according to US media. 67-year-old Kayle Bates was executed after spending 42 years on death row.
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Last night, Florida carried out the execution of Kayle Bates (also known as Maud Dib Al Sharif Qu’un), a 67-year-old Black Muslim veteran who had spent more than forty years on death row. His case was deeply marred by racial bias, ineffective legal counsel, and the denial of basic constitutional rights. Kayle’s execution represents not justice, but a deliberate choice by the State of Florida — one that leaves communities grieving and highlights …
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