Executions Rise, a Conversation with an Attorney Whose Clients Are Facing the Death Penalty V. 1

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1 Kathrina Szymborski Wolfkot, As Executions Rise, a Conversation with an Attorney Whose Clients Are Facing the Death Penalty 1 (2025)

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As Executions Rise, AConversation with

an Attorney Whose Clients Are Facing the

Death Penalty

John Mills, whose client on Oklahoma's death row was granted a

new trial by the U.S. Supreme Court this term, discusses his

anti-death-penalty advocacy.

By Kathrina Szymborski Wolfkot Published: July 15, 2025

Oklahoma Florida Missouri Texas Kentucky Arizona Alabama Washington
California

Florida is set to execute Michael Bell today for the shooting deaths of two people
outside a Jacksonville bar in 1993. Bell will be the 26th person executed this year,
putting the number of executions in 2025 higher than any year of the past decade. It's
only July, so that number is likely to keep.rising.

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