Executions then resumed in 1977, when double murderer Gary Gilmore was put to death by firing squad. A steady rise in ...

As Gov. Ron DeSantis exits office, one of the legacies he‘ll leave behind is a record-shattering embrace of the death penalty ...

Florida's Supreme Court denied a request to lift James Duckett's execution stay after DNA testing of key evidence came back ...

The Florida Supreme Court halted the execution of James Duckett, a former officer convicted of murder, pending DNA testing. Here's what to know ...

A botched drug deal involving a missing package of methamphetamine ended in decades of prison time for a Florida woman and a ...

The execution of a former Florida police officer convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl has been temporarily halted by the Florida Supreme Court. The court issued a stay in ...

James Duckett has been on Death Row since 1988, when he was convicted of raping and drowning an 11-year-old girl. He has long ...

According to court documents, on July 31, 1976 Hitchcock raped his step-niece Cynthia Driggers in her bedroom in Orange ...

Ex-officer James Duckett had been set to be executed on Tuesday for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl while he was ...

Florida executed Michael King by lethal injection March 17 at Florida State Prison near Starke, for the 2008 Sarasota County kidnapping and murder of Denise Amber Lee. King was pronounced dead at 6:13 ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office said “stay tuned” when asked if a new death warrant would be signed for James Aren Duckett, a former Florida cop who had been scheduled to be executed on March 31.