Gov. Ron DeSantis issued the fifth death warrant of the year for James Duckett, sentenced to death for the 1987 rape and ...

Florida carried out its second execution on Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. A group of 50 people held a vigil outside the Florida State ...

The Supreme Court on Friday blocked the Trump administration from restarting federal executions next week after a 16-year break. The justices denied the administration's plea to undo a lower court ...

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 ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for Billy Leon Kearse, convicted of killing a police officer in 1991. Kearse is scheduled for execution on March 3, following two other executions set for ...

A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m.

A man convicted of killing a 70-year-old grocery store owner has been put to death in Florida, becoming the second person ...

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