So far in 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed eight death warrants, tying a record for a single year. Here's a look at who's ...

Florida’s current three-legged electric chair, nicknamed “Old Sparky,” was built of oak by Florida Department of Corrections staff and installed at Florida State Prison in Raiford in 1999.

A man convicted of raping and killing a woman near a bar in central Florida was scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening.

RAIFORD, Fla. – James D. Ford, who was convicted of murdering a young couple in 1999 in southwest Florida while their toddler looked on, was executed by lethal injection Thursday and pronounced ...

Florida's prison system, the nation’s third largest, demands between $6.3 billion and $11.9 billion from taxpayers over the next two decades. ... Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, ...

A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis allows more methods of execution for people convicted of capital crimes.

Thomas Gudinas, 51, was to be put to death by lethal injection at 6:00 pm (2200 GMT) on Tuesday at the Florida State Prison ...

Anthony Wainwright, a Florida man convicted of raping and killing a woman 30 years ago after he kidnapped her from a ...

Florida’s current three-legged electric chair, nicknamed “Old Sparky,” was built of oak by Florida Department of Corrections staff and installed at Florida State Prison in Raiford in 1999.

Reporting from Raiford, Florida. It's chilly and silent inside a witness room adjacent to the execution chamber at Florida State Prison in Raiford.

The death chamber inside Florida State Prison in Raiford. Florida Department of Corrections "If I had let her go, I was gonna get caught quicker," he told detectives, according to court documents.