Executions

The new death penalty law took effect immediately and represents a major change in Florida’s death-penalty system. Lawmakers moved forward with the issue after Nikolas Cruz was sentenced to life in prison last year in the 2018 shooting deaths of 17 students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The life sentence came after a jury did not unanimously recommend death.

The Florida Supreme Court on Friday rejected a stay of execution and turned down a series of legal arguments made on behalf of condemned killer Bobby...

Florida is scheduled to execute its next Death Row inmate next month. Gov. Rick Scott signed a new death warrant on Friday setting the execution of...

The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously turned down an appeal by Death Row inmate Cary Michael Lambrix, who is scheduled to be executed Oct. 5...

F lorida executed Thursday evening convicted inmate Mark Asay, breaking the state's year and a half hiatus for the death penalty. Asay was pronounced...

Thursday night, Florida executed Mark Asay, who was declared dead at 6:22 p.m. He broke Florida’s year-and-a-half hiatus for the death penalty as the...

While the state of Florida is set to execute the first person in more than a year and a half, 150 other Death Row inmates await new sentences. The death...

The state of Florida is poised to execute the first person in more than a year and a half this Thursday, August 24. Mark Asay was convicted in 1988 of...

Florida’s death penalty law and the fate of the state’s nearly 400 death row inmates remains in flux. Last week a Miami-Dade judge ruled that Florida’s…

Attorneys for a convicted murderer scheduled to be put to death on St. Patrick's Day are asking the Florida Supreme Court for a stay, arguing that recor...