capital punishment

More than 30 years after he murdered John Edwards, who was on a camping trip in the Ocala National Forest, Loran Cole was given a lethal injection Thursday evening.

Loran Cole is slated to be executed Thursday for the 1994 rape of a woman and the murder of her brother, Florida State University student John Edwards

The Florida Supreme Court rejected a series of arguments, including claims that Loran Cole was severely abused as a teen at the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna.

Marion County Circuit Judge Robert Hodges last week refused to vacate Loran Cole’s death sentence. He murdered an FSU student 30 years ago in the Ocala National Forest.

Loran Cole, 57, was sentenced to death in the February of 1994 murder of John Edwards in the Ocala National Forest. Cole was 17 when he was sent to Dozier in 1984.

John Edwards was murdered in 1994. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a death warrant for Loran Cole, who would be the first inmate executed in Florida since October.

With backing from Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida lawmakers could scrap a requirement that unanimous jury recommendations are needed before death sentences can be imposed.

The Florida Supreme Court recently issued a ruling that could restart debate over capital punishment. The state’s high court says a unanimous jury is no…

Florida lawmakers are again urging the governor to suspend a prosecutor who won’t pursue the death penalty. But constitutional lawyers argue Aramis…

The Florida Supreme Court Tuesday took up a case that could spell trouble for the state’s new capital sentencing system. The court is deciding whether…