The use of the death penalty has risen sharply in the United States, with more executions in 2025 than any year since 2009. It is a cruel and unjust development.

Attorneys for Florida death row inmate James Aren Duckett filed an emergency motion with the Florida Supreme Court late Wednesday, seeking to halt his execution scheduled for March 31. The 11th-hour ...

A St. Patrick’s Day undercover sting at the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility has ended with fresh felony charges ...

In a decision that reinforces the finality of criminal convictions, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that defendants ...

He devoured his final meal before receiving a lethal injection for kidnapping, raping, and fatally shooting 21-year-old ...

King’s case exposes a legal system that disposes of individuals, mostly men, whose minds were fractured long before they ...

Twenty-one-year-old Denise Amber Lee was abducted from her Florida home in broad daylight in 2008. If it weren't for a ...

Michael King, 54, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday, becoming the 32nd person put to death under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Michael Lee King, 54, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke. King was sentenced to death in 2009 after being convicted of first-degree ...

Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant for Michael King, who was convicted of the 2008 kidnap, rape, and murder of Denise ...

More than 17 years after the abduction and murder of North Port mother Denise Lee, the man convicted of killing her is scheduled to be executed.

Florida is preparing to carry out its fourth execution of the year as advocates against the death penalty warn about what they call a record pace of executions in the state. Fifty-four-year-old ...