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Veterans Stand Against Executions of Fellow Veterans Press Conference

On Wednesday, August 13, 2025, a delegation of veterans will gather to issue a plea to Governor Ron DeSantis to stop executing veterans. They will present a letter to the governor signed by more than 130 veterans representing at least 1400 years of service in nearly every branch of the U.S. Armed Services. The letter notes, “During your term, five veterans have been executed — Bobby Joe Long, Duane Owen, Edward James, Jeffrey Hutchinson, and Edward Zakrzewski. And you have authorized another one – Kayle Bates, set to be executed on August 19. There are close to 30 veterans remaining on death row, and countless others facing death penalty trials throughout the state…To execute a veteran who was broken by war and left without adequate care is not justice. It is a failure of duty. It is the final abandonment.” If Bates is executed on August 19, he will be the fourth veteran and tenth person executed in Florida this year.