After President Trump urged states to recommit themselves to capital punishment, Florida started to put prisoners to death at rates not seen in the state’s modern history.

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday.

A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop has been executed in Florida.

Gov. Ron DeSantis issued the fifth death warrant of the year for James Duckett, sentenced to death for the 1987 rape and murder of a young girl.

Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Sonny Burton, who was set to be executed this week for a murder in which he didn't pull the trigger.

James Broadnax, who was 19 when he shot and killed two Dallas County Christian music producers in 2008, has filed last-minute appeals ahead of his scheduled April 30 execution for the Garland murders.

A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Tuesday following a three-drug injection at Florida ...

Death penalty illustration by Kagenmi via iStock for WMNF News. Ronald Heath was executed yesterday. Heath’s death warrant was signed on Jan. 9 by Gov. Ron DeSantis. He then filed an appeal with the Florida Supreme Court. He asked to pause his execution ...