A court granted James Duckett’s request to test for DNA evidence after Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered his execution.
Florida has carried out 19 executions in 2025, surpassing Texas, Alabama and South Carolina combined, and more than doubling ...
Billy Leon Kearse shot police officer Danny Parrish more than a dozen times with the officer’s gun.
The Republican governor commuted the death sentence of 75-year-old Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton. Burton had been set for execution on Thursday, March 12.
With 19 executions last year, Florida more than doubled its own record, and put more people to death than Texas, Alabama, and South Carolina combined. This execution spree came even as Florida’s ...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has raised concerns about the lack of transparency in Florida's execution protocols, warning that the state's secrecy laws may place people on death row at risk of Eighth ...
Melvin Trotter, 65, was convicted of strangling and stabbing Virgie Langford at her store in Palmetto in 1986.
Death penalty illustration by Kagenmi via iStock for WMNF News. Ronald Heath was executed yesterday. Heath’s death warrant was signed on Jan. 9 by Gov. Ron DeSantis. He then filed an appeal with the ...