With 19 executions last year, Florida more than doubled its own record, and put more people to death than Texas, Alabama, and South Carolina combined. This execution spree came even as Florida’s ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Florida, which has made the death penalty a priority, must be more transparent about how it's killing death row inmates.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed concerns about Florida’s lethal injection procedure on Tuesday, urging more transparency as ...

Florida carried out its second execution on Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. A group of 50 people held a vigil outside the Florida State ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a grocery store owner was executed Tuesday, marking the second execution in the state this year.

Trotter’s legal team long argued for mercy based on their client's intellectual disabilities and the fact that he was high on crack at the time of the crime and came to the store unarmed, ...

Melvin Trotter was executed by lethal injection Tuesday night, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his appeal for a stay of execution.

Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book “Secrets of the Killing State,” which exposes the troubling realities behind lethal injection as a method of execution. Lain, a ...