Florida’s record execution spree in 2025 drove a sharp national uptick: Executions nearly doubled nationwide from 2024.
Simpson’s case will be considered a final time by the state’s Pardon and Parole Board this month. The board has the power to ...
Without Florida, the national execution rate would be like an average year, with fewer than 30 executions across the country.
The state led the nation in executions with 19 people put to death, some of whom committed crimes in the Tampa Bay area ...
Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla. in 2023. (Curt Anderson/AP) Richard Randolph, a man who was convicted of sexually assaulting and killing his manager at a convenience store in 1988, was executed ...
Senate Bill 11 was introduced as lethal injection drugs have become more expensive and hard to get, leading some states to ...
CHICAGO -- An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl was executed by injection early Friday in the state's third execution since resuming capital punishment last year. Roy ...
The state also expanded the death penalty to apply to some non-homicide crimes, such as certain sexual offenses against children. Florida is "one of just two states to allow non-unanimous death ...
The machinery of the state killing apparatus in the US continues its relentless march this week, fueled by the accelerating fascistic agenda of the Trump administration. As the nation races towards a ...
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Local Legal Initiative Attorneys Paul McAdoo and Beth Soja and legal fellow Allyson Veile are representing a news media coalition in a new lawsuit ...