DA seeks death penalty for Nakishia Williams, the Florida mother accused of killing her 7-year-old daughter, Nia, by stomping ...

The novena began Aug. 6 and concludes Aug. 14, the memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Catholic priest executed in Auschwitz ...

The State’s Attorney’s Office is seeking the death penalty for Naikishia Williams, accused of killing her 7-year-old daughter ...

The execution of Edward Zakrzewski set a record for the most in Florida in a single year, 9, since the death penalty was ...

Nia Williams died on April 28. Investigators allege the 7-year-old suffered fatal damage to her organs after her mother stomped on her.

What Florida has done is turn decades of precedent in death penalty jurisprudence on its head. In that jurisprudence, people ...

On July 31, Edward Zakrzewski II will become the ninth prisoner executed in Florida this year, a one-year state record.

Florida has executed death row inmate Michael Bernard Bell, marking a 10-year high for executions in the U.S. Bell was executed on Tuesday, July 15, for the revenge killings of 23-year-old Jimmy ...

On February 23, Florida completed its 100th execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, executing Donald Dillbeck. DeSantis signed the warrant for Dillbeck’s execution the same day ...

Florida is among five states that regularly impose the death penalty — and in 2023 the state stood out for its efforts to increase and expand the use of capital punishment.

Florida. The ruling found that the state’s death-penalty process was unconstitutional. In October 2016, in the similarly named case of Hurst v.