James Duckett, the former police officer convicted of raping and murdering 11-year-old Teresa McAbee, was slated to be ...

According to court documents, on July 31, 1976 Hitchcock raped his step-niece Cynthia Driggers in her bedroom in Orange ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Chadwick Willacy have filed an emergency petition with the Florida Supreme Court, alleging the ...

James Duckett has been temporarily spared from execution pending the results of a DNA test that his lawyers say will ...

PALM BAY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man who burned his neighbor alive in a violent robbery decades ago is scheduled to be executed next month. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for Chadwick ...

Four inmates, three of which spent over 30 years on death row have been executed in Florida in 2026.

Billy Leon Kearse spent 29 years on death row for killing Fort Pierce police Sgt. Danny Parrish in 1991 — and the case likely ...

For nearly five decades, the family of 13-year-old Cynthia "Cindy" Driggers has lived through a cycle of trials, sentencings, ...

Florida's first execution of 2026 was carried out on Ronald Palmer Heath, who was convicted of a 1989 murder. Heath was pronounced dead by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his ...

We asked the most prominent candidates, Democrats and Republicans, how they envisioned handling the death penalty if elected.

As Gov. Ron DeSantis exits office, one of the legacies he‘ll leave behind is a record-shattering embrace of the death penalty ...