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October 2025 has not been a happy month for death penalty opponents. A total of seven people have been or are scheduled to be executed between Oct. 1 and the end of the month.

That is a lot of executions in a short period of time. Several of the cases in which executions occurred this month involved truly egregious miscarriages of justice. But courts refused to intervene.

Not surprisingly, the conservative-dominated, pro-death-penalty majority on the Supreme Court was not interested in righting those miscarriages of justice. They avoided doing so by invoking procedural barriers as reasons to avoid addressing the substantive claims raised by the death row

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