An Orange County judge has denied a request by Tommy Zeigler — who has been on Florida’s death row for nearly 50 years — to ...

With another execution set, Brevard’s death row is nearly empty as Florida carries out a record number of executions.

With a death warrant already signed, attorneys for James Hitchcock filed a critical reply brief with the Florida Supreme ...

With the clock ticking toward a scheduled execution on April 21, the State of Florida has officially fired back at death row ...

Attorney Joyce Brenner, left, appears in court with Rafael Andres (right) to make final arguments in the hope of sparing the convicted killer’s life after a jury in November recommended that Andres, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four Florida inmates, three of which spent over 30 years on death row, according to the Florida Department of Corrections, have ...

Two men on death row, including one who is set to be executed at the end of April, testified in defense of a Miami handyman who could also face the ultimate punishment for killing a La Carreta ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court denied a death row inmate’s habeas petition and request for a stay of execution. The defendant, now 72, was convicted of murdering a 70-year-old woman in ...

For weeks, Isaiah Mosley shuffled into the morning chaos of the Miami criminal courthouse. He would head upstairs and find ...

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 ...

The Florida Supreme Court has stayed the execution of former police officer James Duckett. Duckett was sentenced to death in 1988 for the rape and murder of 11-year-old Teresa Mae McAbee. Duckett's ...