Florida nearly doubled the national average of executions in 2025, with a record-breaking 19 death warrants carried out, according to an annual report released by the Death Penalty Information Center. Experts say Florida's "extreme" outlier status - namely ...

Feb. 11 (UPI) --Florida has executed a 64-year-old man for the 1989 murder of a traveling salesman, the state's first execution and the nation's second of the year. Ronald Heath was administered a three-drug lethal injection at Florida State Prison near ...

For the 17th time this year, a Florida prisoner is set to be executed at Florida State Prison in Starke, just an hour's drive from Jacksonville. This time, the man set to die has been on Florida's Death Row since April 5, 1989, for the "brutal and ...

A South Carolina killer who taunted police by writing a message in blood after killing three men in a week has become the third inmate executed by firing squad in the state this year. Stephen Corey Bryant, who once scrawled "catch me if u can" on a wall ...

Nov. 20 (UPI) --Florida on Thursday executed a death row inmate convicted of rape and murder of a convenience store clerk in 1988, a record 17th execution in the Sunshine State and the 7th military veteran it has killed this year. Richard B. Randolph, 63 ...

Bryan Jennings is scheduled to be executed for the 1979 rape and murder of a six-year-old girl. Florida has executed 15 inmates in 2025, more than any other state. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed more death warrants this year than in any other year of his term.

A Florida man who raped and murdered his next-door neighbor after inviting her over for coffee is set to become the 15th inmate executed in the state this year, nearly double Florida's previous record for annual executions. Norman Grim, 65, is scheduled to ...