Death penalty cases cost taxpayers significantly more than cases where inmates serve life sentences. Capital cases are more ...

Billy Leon Kearse spent 29 years on death row for killing Fort Pierce police Sgt. Danny Parrish in 1991 — and the case likely ...

Attorneys for Florida death row inmate James Aren Duckett filed an emergency motion with the Florida Supreme Court late ...

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

Florida is preparing to carry out its fourth execution of the year as advocates against the death penalty warn about what ...

Florida's death row population is shrinking. Learn about the only biological woman, Tina Brown, and trans woman Jenna Rodgers.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida has executed its second inmate of the year even as a Supreme Court justice questioned the state's “deeply troubling" ...

Twenty-one-year-old Denise Amber Lee was abducted from her Florida home in broad daylight in 2008. If it weren't for a ...