Death Penalty

The death penalty trial for the Parkland shooting trial resumed this week after a two-week break, and Nikolas Cruz's lawyers have continued to take jurors through his life chronologically as they seek to prove his difficult childhood contributed to the violence. They hope it will be enough to persuade just one juror to not back the death penalty.

The Florida Supreme Court is weighing whether to uphold a death sentence for Gary Michael Hilton. Hilton was convicted of killing a Crawfordville woman in 2007. He's been convicted of similar crimes in three other states.

Governor Ron DeSantis has pulled another high-profile murder case from Orlando-area State Attorney Aramis Ayala. He cited her objections to the death…

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…

A Central Florida man has been sitting on death row awaiting execution for 42 years. But new DNA testing offers the hope of exonerating him. WUSF's...

Florida Senators have teed up a change to the state’s death penalty rules now heading to the chamber floor. It comes two years after a U.S. Supreme Court…

Already, the Florida Supreme Court has rejected more than three dozen appeals involving death row inmates, who received their sentences before 2002 and…

Florida Governor Rick Scott has set a date for the execution of Michael Lambrix.Just a week after executing its first prisoner in more than a year and a…

It’s been more than a year and a half since Florida conducted an execution, but lethal injections are likely to resume Thursday evening.Mark James Asay’s…

Executions are set to resume in August after Governor Rick Scott issued his first death warrant in more than a year and a half.Governor Scott first signed…