The Republican governor commuted the death sentence of 75-year-old Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton. Burton had been set for execution on Thursday, March 12.

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis issued the fifth death warrant of the year for James Duckett, sentenced to death for the 1987 rape and ...

While the man who killed Doug Battle got a life sentence, one of his accomplices is about to be executed even though he wasn't in the building.

A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop has been executed in Florida.

A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m.

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

Death penalty illustration by Kagenmi via iStock for WMNF News. Ronald Heath was executed yesterday. Heath’s death warrant was signed on Jan. 9 by Gov. Ron DeSantis. He then filed an appeal with the ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor has raised concerns about the lack of transparency in Florida's execution protocols, warning that the state's secrecy laws may place people on death row at risk of Eighth ...