A Florida man convicted of killing a grocery store owner was executed Tuesday, marking the second execution in the state this year.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Florida, which has made the death penalty a priority, must be more transparent about how it's killing death row inmates.

Florida carried out its second execution on Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. A group of 50 people held a vigil outside the Florida State ...

In a small, piercingly bright room inside a state prison in northeast Florida, Frank Walls was strapped to a gurney and injected three times: first with a sedative meant to render him unconscious, ...

Melvin Trotter, 65, convicted of killing grocery store owner Virgie Langford during a 1986 robbery, is set Tuesday evening to ...

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The Florida Supreme Court issued a ruling on Tuesday that paves the way for the execution of Melvin Trotter, a 65-year-old ...

Indiana's spending on execution drugs revealed, showing $100,000 for October and a total of $1.275 million on pentobarbital.

Oklahoma has carried out its first execution of the year on a man convicted of killing two men in a drive-by shooting.

California issued a stay of execution for Michael Angelo Morales in 2006, sparking a debate about the ethical implications of ...