OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — The man accused of sex crimes and murdering 13-year-old Madeline Soto is expected to be in court on Monday. Stephan Sterns is expected to take a plea deal to avoid the death ...

Bates, 67, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Aug. 19 at Florida State Prison. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant last Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 ...

A man convicted of abducting and killing a woman from a Florida insurance office more than four decades ago is scheduled to ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute takes ...

A man on death row in Florida is scheduled to be executed next month for his conviction of abducting a woman from an ...

More than 43 years after Janet White was abducted from a Bay County office and murdered, Gov. DeSantis signed a death warrant ...

Michael Robert Schnitzerling, 34, is set to go on trial Monday for the murder of Bruce Salituri and the attempted murder of ...

We’re in the midst of something historic,” said Robert Dunham, director of the Death Penalty Policy Project, as the U.S. braces for its highest number of executions in a decade. The focus is on ...

With Michael Bell's execution in Florida on Tuesday, the U.S. has now had more executions in any given year since 2015, when ...

Florida carried out its 26th execution of the year on Tuesday, July 15, marking a milestone that already exceeds the total number of executions carried out in the U.S. in 2024. Gov. Ron DeSantis ...

The execution of Michael Bernard Bell marks the 26th person put to death in the US in 2025, surpassing 2024's total with more than five months left on the calendar.

Michael Bell's execution highlights the troubling legacy of childhood trauma inflicted at Florida's reform schools, raises ...