lethal injection

Michael Tanzi received a lethal injection at Florida State Prison for the strangling death of Janet Acosta, a Miami Herald production worker who was attacked in her van while reading a book.

Edward James' previous appeals to the Florida Supreme Court and a federal appellate court were rejected. He is slated for lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis as signed the death warrant for 48-year-old Michael Tanzi, who was found guilty of murdering 49-year-old Janet Acosta in Miami. It would be Florida's third execution of the year.

A man convicted of killing two people in 1991 on Wednesday became the third inmate executed in Florida since the state resumed carrying out the death…

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...

Attorney General Pam Bondi's office Thursday asked the Florida Supreme Court to reject an appeal from Mark James Asay, a Death Row prisoner whose...

It's not unusual for lawyers representing Death Row prisoners whose execution dates have been set to file last-minute appeals to try to get more time to...

In a move that would be certain to spur more litigation over the state's already embattled death penalty, Florida corrections officials appear to be...

Lawyers representing seven Arizona Death Row inmates want information about the drugs used in Florida's lethal-injection procedure, but corrections...

Setting the stage for another Florida Supreme Court death-penalty debate, a Central Florida judge has rejected Death Row inmate Jerry Correll's...

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is asking the state Supreme Court to allow officials to execute a man convicted of murdering four people in Orlando....

The Supreme Court allowed the use of a controversial drug for lethal injection. Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent called the requirement of proof of a more humane method "patently absurd."