STARKE, Fla. (AP) — The execution of a former Florida police officer convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl was temporarily halted Thursday by the Florida Supreme Court. The court ...

The killing of 19-year-old Iranian wrestling champion Saleh Mohammadi at the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard provides further “recognition” of a brutal regime, according to a long outspoken ...

Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she committed a crime that dominated headlines for years: She tortured and murdered her romantic rival in Tennessee and later showed off a piece of the ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A North Texas man faced execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 ...

A social media post by Gov. Kay Ivey reflecting on her childhood and accomplishments sparked hundreds of requests for the governor to use her authority to stop the execution of a man who was convicted ...

Billy Leon Kearse, convicted in October 1991 in the Jan. 18, 1991, murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish, and sentenced to death in March 1997, was executed the evening of March 3 after ...

Gathering outside of the Florida State Prison before the execution of Billy Leon Kearse Opponents from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Daytona and others gather outside of Florida State Prison ...

The killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho,” leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), in a joint US–Mexican operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, has unleashed a new wave of chaos and ...

STARKE, Fla. (WCJB) - Florida’s fourth execution of 2026 is scheduled for March 17 at Florida State Prison near Starke. Michael King is set to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. He was convicted for ...

MEGAN, WALK US THROUGH HIS FINAL MOMENTS. YEAH, GUYS, THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS CARRIED OUT THAT EXECUTION EARLIER TODAY. AND FRIENDS AND FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS SAY THAT JUSTICE WAS SERVED.

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Florida executed its first prisoner of 2026 on Tuesday evening, a man twice convicted in separate murders 12 years apart and who stabbed a robbery victim in the neck with a hunting knife while his ...