SDNY COURTHOUSE, July 12 – Dennis Sochor is
scheduled to be executed on July 14 in
Florida.
On July 10, his spiritual advisor
Jeff Hood held a press conference. Inner City Press asked
Hood and his co-presenter about the Federal death penalty,
including the capital case of USA v. DaShawn McBean aka
Jeezy Mulla in the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of New York.
The reply was that no Federal
execution is near - except, perhaps, three military death
penalty cases for which the facilities in Terre Haute in
Indiana are being vetted.
But a quick check finds 10 more executions,
beyond Sochor's, scheduled in the US in the rest of
2026:
July 28
FL Dominick Anthony Occhicone, Jr.
August 13 TN Anthony
Darrell Dugard Hines
August 13 OK Carlos
Cuesta-Rodriguez
August 13 AL Jeremy
Williams
September 16 TX
LeJames Norman
September 23 TX
Ker’Sean Olajuwa Ramey
September 30 TN
Christa Pike
October 7 TX Jamaal
Howard
November 12 TX John
Rubio
December 3 TN Gary
Wayne Sutton
So eleven executions in five US states.
Texas with four nosing out Tennessee with three each. Long
ago, Inner City Press went to Huntsville, Texas and met
with death row inmate - and writer - Robert West, who was
subsequently executed. RIP.
Looking ahead to 2027, the only state with
dates of death scheduled is Ohio.
Jeff Hood is profiled in a short
documentary by Rolling Stone. In it, a family member of
Emanuel Littlejohn, after his execution by Oklahoma, tells
Governor Stitt to "f*ck yourself," and that the Governor,
unlike Littlejohn, will not be in glory or heaven. The
request in Florida is that the decisionmaker on the
execution actually attend. Watch this site.
