Jon Sheldon Biography, Undated

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Jon is a 1987 graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he
majored in mathematics, and a 1995 graduate of the William & Mary School of Law.
He clerked for the South Carolina Death Penalty Resource Center during law school.
After graduating, Jon worked on criminal and civil rights cases at the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York as a staff attorney. Jon is a partner in the
firm of Devine, Connell & Sheldon, PLC (3 partners and 3 employees) and focuses his
work almost exclusively on post-conviction capital cases. He has been involved in the
representation of several Virginia death row inmates, including Jeff Remington, Justin
Wolfe, Eddie Bell, William Burns, Paul Powell, and Ricky Gray. Jon has published
several articles on lethal injection, including Chemical Asphyxiation? in PLoS
MEDICINE in 2007; Can lethal injection be “fixed”? in THE LANCET in 2007; and
Inadequate Anesthesia for Lethal Injection in Execution, in THE LANCET in 2005. Jon is
Married to Tina, has three young children (Michael, 6; George, 4; & Sofia, 1) and lives
in Arlington, VA.

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