Death Penalty

The fight over whether Florida Gov. Rick Scott can take away an officer-killing case from a prosecutor because she no longer will seek the death penalty...

After more than a year of uncertainty, Florida is again poised to begin executions and prosecute death penalty cases after Gov. Rick Scott signed a law...

Moving closer to getting Florida's death penalty back on track, the Florida Senate on Thursday approved a measure that would require unanimous jury...

A proposal that would require unanimous jury recommendations for death sentences to be imposed sailed through its first House vetting Wednesday,...

Senate Criminal Justice Chairman Randolph Bracy (D-Ocoee) wants a more permanent death penalty fix. But his committee has little interest in revisiting...

Florida is one step closer to reinstating the death penalty. After a year of turmoil for the state’s death penalty, one Florida legislator is trying to...

A shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale airport Friday, first reported by WGCU during that afternoon's Gulf Coast Live, saw five killed and six injured by a…

After the Florida Supreme Court ruled that a new death-penalty law was unconstitutional, the chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice committee Friday...

While investigators try to figure out the motive of an Iraq war veteran accused of killing five travelers and wounding six others at a busy...

In a highly unusual move that heightened confusion in an already-murky legal arena, the Florida Supreme Court quickly rescinded an order Wednesday that...