Thomas Lee Gudinas became the seventh person executed in Florida this year, with an eighth execution scheduled for July.

On June 24, death row inmate Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke, ending a long legal saga that began with his 1995 conviction for the 1994 rape ...

Alabama is set to execute a man later this summer for the 1992 shooting of a Marion County woman. On June 16, the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the execution of David Lee Roberts, 59. Roberts is ...

Florida and Alabama each put an inmate to death on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Oklahoma executed a man transferred from federal to state custody to allow his death. The deal this week had looked in doubt ...

Over the last decade, an array of local and state agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to ...

After Fort Myers bicyclist and Caloosa Riders member Debra Purcaro, 64, was killed in a March 2021 hit-and-run in Alva while ...

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BRIAN LOCKHART There are several places on my ‘wish list’ of places to visit. I’ve already seen some of them, and hopefully will visit the rest. At one time, I had planned on visiting Egypt to ...

A federal appeals court ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990, ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder of Montgomery County Sheriff’s ...

Now 55 years old, Barbour isn’t the only person who remains in Alabama’s prison system despite evidence suggesting he didn’t do the crime. Alabama’s legal system has a complicated relationship with ...