Marlys Sather walked in on a neighbor burglarizing her home on Sept. 5, 1990. The neighbor, 24-year-old Chadwick Willacy, ...

The Florida Supreme Court upheld a death sentence for Joseph Zieler, 64, who was convicted in the 1990 murders of a ...

Florida's Supreme Court denied a request to lift James Duckett's execution stay after DNA testing of key evidence came back inconclusive Friday.

With less than three weeks remaining before his scheduled execution, attorneys for James E. Hitchcock have filed an appeal ...

Former police officer's death warrant expires as state awaits new DNA evidence results.

Billy Leon Kearse, convicted in October 1991 in the Jan. 18, 1991, murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish, and sentenced to death in March 1997, was executed the evening of March 3 after ...

Last year, Florida executed a record-breaking 19 inmates. Two executions are set to take place before the end of the month.

Florida executed Michael King by lethal injection March 17 at Florida State Prison near Starke, for the 2008 Sarasota County kidnapping and murder of Denise Amber Lee. King was pronounced dead at 6:13 ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the rape and murder of a young mother who frantically called 911 on her attacker’s cellphone while she was tied up in his car.

A botched drug deal involving a missing package of methamphetamine ended in decades of prison time for a Florida woman and a ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman during home invasion robbery is scheduled to be put to death in December under a death warrant signed Friday by Republican Gov. Ron ...