Prosecutors say they wanted to spare the families of four University of Idaho students killed in November 2022 by agreeing to ...

Bates abducted White from the State Farm insurance office where she worked, took her into some woods behind the building, ...

More than 43 years after Janet White was abducted from a Bay County office and murdered, Gov. DeSantis signed a death warrant ...

A judge is currently considering whether to overturn the death penalty in the case of David Barber, a former corrections officer charged with the murder of 72-year-old Jessie Kirk.

With one prisoner executed this week and another set to be executed this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis will achieve the dubious ...

Florida is set to execute its eighth death row inmate in 2025. Methods of execution in the United States vary by state. Which ...

With Florida's first execution since 2019 scheduled to take place, WPTV takes a look at some key facts to know about the death penalty in the state.

A Florida man will be the 26th person to be executed nationwide this year, marking the most death penalty sentences carried ...

With Michael Bell's execution in Florida on Tuesday, the U.S. has now had more executions in any given year since 2015, when ...

Florida is among five states that regularly impose the death penalty — and in 2023 the state stood out for its efforts to increase and expand the use of capital punishment.

On February 23, Florida completed its 100th execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, executing Donald Dillbeck. DeSantis signed the warrant for Dillbeck’s execution the same day ...

Death penalty opponents demonstrate outside Florida State Prison, where Oba Chandler, who has has been on death row for 17 years for the 1989 killings of an Ohio woman and her two teenage ...