Capital Punishment

Pope Francis took a stance on the death penalty Thursday, and the Diocese of Venice in Florida agrees.Pope Francis says the act of execution is never…

It’s been a year of confusion for Florida’s roughly 400 death penalty cases. A series of court cases called the ultimate punishment unconstitutional, but…

Capital murder trials and executions had been on hold awaiting this decision. The justices found that juries, not judges, should have final say in whether to sentence someone to death.

Update 10/29/2015 11:55 p.m. -- Jerry Correll was pronounced dead at 7:36 p.m. Thursday night, ten minutes after the execution procedure began. He had...

A Florida man convicted of killing four people, including his own daughter, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday. Jerry Correll’s execution...

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is asking the state Supreme Court to allow officials to execute a man convicted of murdering four people in Orlando....

Florida’s lethal injection procedure is constitutional according to a decision out Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court, the final day of decisions for...

Over the last several years, European drug manufacturers have tried to limit the use of their products in lethal injection executions. As a result,...

Florida is on track to execute its first inmate since a flawed and controversial execution in Oklahoma. That state’s execution raised questions about the…