A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter was put to death ...

Richard Knight's attorneys challenge constitutionality of his sentence and state's lethal injection protocol.

Richard Knight's attorneys had been arguing that his execution should be delayed to allow testing on a fingerprint of one of ...

When Florida executes James “Ernie” Hitchcock on Thursday evening, the state will be ending the life of a prisoner who has been condemned to die longer than almost anyone else. The state will also, ...

Attorneys representing a Florida death row inmate are using Tony Carruthers' failed execution Thursday as cause to pause ...

The jury deciding whether Otto Lenke should receive the death penalty is deliberating at a moment when Florida is carrying out executions more aggressively than it has in decades — a shift driven ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday denied an appeal from death row inmate Andrew Richard Lukehart, affirming a lower court’s decision and clearing the way for his scheduled execution on June 2, ...

Two executions on May 14 were the first in a series of five scheduled across the country over eight days.

If three executions move forward in Arizona, Tennessee and Florida, the U.S. will see the deadliest week for the death ...