Florida on Tuesday executed a 72-year-old man for the 1996 murders of two women, as the state continues its record pace of ...

Samuel Lee Smithers, 72, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, ...

Norman Grim, convicted in the 1998 sexual assault and murder of a Northwest Florida woman, has decided not to fight in court ...

Charles, 48, was sentenced to life behind bars for hiring two hit men from Miami to kill Markel and is serving his sentence ...

The fundamental human rights of Florida’s prison population could get a boost if a newly filed bill is adopted.

A man convicted of raping and killing a 6-year-old girl in central Florida is scheduled to be put to death in November.

Led by Florida, 15 state attorneys general have signed a letter asking U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to support execution ...

Prosecutors said 75-year-old Donna Adelson helped plan the 2014 killing of her then son-in-law, Daniel Markel.

That amount didn't include funding for salaries of correction officers, which he said rank among the lowest for its size in ...

Donna Adelson, the matriarch of a wealthy South Florida family who was convicted in the hired killing of her former ...

South Florida matriarch Donna Adelson, who was convicted of orchestrating the murder of her ex-son-in-law, has been sentenced ...