The number of death row inmates from Brevard County has dropped from 12 to three over the last decade. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has increased the pace of executions, with 19 inmates executed in 2025.

James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution. James Hitchcock appears in Florida prison mug shots ...

A Mississippi death row inmate convicted in a 2017 killing spree that left eight people dead is asking the state’s highest court to overturn his conviction and death sentence.In a petition filed ...

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James Franklin Rose has been waiting a lifetime to be put to death. Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the warrant authorizing the May 21 execution of Richard Knight, 47, who was convicted of ...

Chadwick Scott Willacy, convicted of first-degree murder for setting his elderly neighbor on fire after she allegedly caught him burglarizing her home, maintained his innocence right before being ...

THE CITY COUNCIL MEETS AGAIN TOMORROW. HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, A CONVICTED MASS MURDERER IS BACK IN ORANGE COUNTY COURT FIGHTING FOR HIS FREEDOM AFTER HALF A CENTURY. A JUDGE CANCELED YESTERDAY’S HEARING ...

Florida leads the nation in executions this year, with five carried out so far in 2026. Governor Ron DeSantis has accelerated the pace of executions, citing an obligation to provide closure for ...

The Justice Department also reauthorized the use of a death penalty drug, and will seek to shorten the length of some legal appeals. By Devlin Barrett and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Devlin Barrett ...

Ohio is one of America’s most important death penalty “swing states.” Although the ultimate punishment is legal there, no one has been executed in the state since 2018, when Robert Van Hook was put to ...

When Demarius Cummings heard that his cousin, James Broadnax, was scheduled to be executed on April 30, 2026, he told lawyers his conscience couldn’t take it anymore. Both men were arrested for the ...