A man convicted of abducting and killing a woman from a Florida insurance office more than four decades ago is scheduled to ...

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

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

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 ...

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 executed a man this week and is scheduled to put another to death this month, setting a modern-day record for the state and underscoring an unsettling trend for the nation. Michael Bell was ...

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.

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.

Legislation proposed in the Florida Legislature (SB450/HB555) seeks to strip defendants facing the death penalty in Florida of their constitutional right to trial by jury and inject uncertainty and… ...

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