Heath was sentenced to death in the May 24, 1989, murder of Michael Sheridan, who was shot, stabbed and robbed in a wooded area south of Gainesville, according to the documents. Heath and his brother, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Men on death row are housed at Florida State Prison and Union Correctional Institution in Raiford southwest of Jacksonville. The ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - For the first time in nearly two decades, a Florida prison inmate is demanding that he be put to death in an electric chair, rather than by lethal injection. Florida ...

Resuming a rapid pace of executions, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted in the 1986 ...

A 58-year-old Florida death row inmate claimed that prison officials used expired drugs and skimped on the doses for the last four executions in the state, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed a ...

Florida set a state record with 19 executions in 2025 under Gov. Ron DeSantis. Eight men from Southwest Florida are currently on death row, with some waiting for decades. One Collier County death row ...

It has been more than two decades since Correctional Officer Darla Lathrem and inmate Charlie Fuston were beaten to death during a botched escape attempt, but on Wednesday night, a Charlotte County ...

Florida has executed 19 people in 2025, a new state record set under Gov. Ron DeSantis. The number of executions in Florida this year is nearly four times higher than any other state. DeSantis has ...

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.