A horrific crime leads to get-tough policies to ensure the tragedy never happens again. That happened in 2018, after a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday they won’t seek the death penalty in their cases against Mexican cartel kingpin ...

The State’s Attorney’s Office is seeking the death penalty for Naikishia Williams, accused of killing her 7-year-old daughter ...

Byron Black, who was convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s, was given a lethal ...

Twenty-eight men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and nine other people are scheduled to be put to death in seven states during the remainder of 2025.

What Florida has done is turn decades of precedent in death penalty jurisprudence on its head. In that jurisprudence, people ...

STARKE, Fla. — A former airman convicted of the 1994 killings of his wife and their two children became the ninth person put ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of killing his wife and two children with a machete in 1994 is set for execution ...

Under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida has executed nine people in 2025, more than than any other state, and set a new ...

The man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump in Florida last year was barred by a federal judge from ...

The legal confusion surrounding a controversial new Florida law requiring judges to sentence convicted undocumented ...