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. Recommended for you ...

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 ...

Former Central Florida police officer James A. Duckett is scheduled to be executed on March 31 for the 1987 rape and murder ...

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.

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 ...

Chadwick Willacy is scheduled to be executed on April 21 for the 1990 murder of his neighbor, Marlys Sather. Willacy was ...

After President Trump urged states to recommit themselves to capital punishment, Florida started to put prisoners to death at rates not seen in the state’s modern history.