The Florida Supreme Court issued a ruling on Tuesday that paves the way for the execution of Melvin Trotter, a 65-year-old ...

Florida executed its first prisoner of 2026 Tuesday evening, a man twice convicted in separate murders 12 years apart and who ...

Florida executed its first prisoner of 2026 on Tuesday evening, a man twice convicted in separate murders 12 years apart and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TALLAHASSEE — Accusing the state of “reckless maladministration” of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer ...

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book 'Secrets of the Killing State,' which exposes the ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal ...

Ronald Palmer Heath was convicted in 1990 of first-degree murder, robbery with a death weapon and multiple forgery charges.

Oklahoma has carried out its first execution of the year on a man convicted of killing two men in a drive-by shooting.

Ronald Palmer Heath is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6:00 p.m. today at Florida State Prison, marking the state’s ...