In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace. Across a two-lane highway from Florida State Prison, people prayed as an ...

The state is accused of unfairly favoring some prisoners over others. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has revived a lawsuit by some Georgia death row prisoners alleging the state is ...

The oldest criminal to be executed by Florida this year used his final words to apologise for murdering a teenager at a New Year's Eve party decades ago. Dennis Sochor was sentenced to death after ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Florida on Tuesday is scheduled to execute two prisoners on the same day in a nearly unprecedented move that underscores the state’s rush to clear a backlog of long-delayed death ...

Prisoners sued over the director OK'ing firing squad and lethal injection protocols. The suit says the prison director approved execution policies without disclosing facts. Attorneys allege the ...