Dominick Occhicone became the 12th inmate to die by lethal injection in the state this year. He’s also the oldest person put to death since the state resumed capital punishment in 1979. The ...

James Duckett and Dominick Occhicone were executed on July 28. The double execution was the first in the modern era of the death penalty. James Duckett and Dominick Occhicone were executed on July 28.

The two men set to be put to death were both convicted of murder The Palm Beach Post/TNS via ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock The state of Florida is scheduled to execute two people on the same day, per ...

After months of legal maneuvering and procedural delays, Gov. Ron DeSantis has re-scheduled the execution of death row inmate James Duckett — a former Mascotte police officer who pushed for what ...

As the execution of convicted killer Dennis Sochor draws near, his victim’s sister is bracing for a reality she has dreaded for 44 years. “I wish we had her home,” Marilyn Gifford said of her slain ...

In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace. Across a two-lane highway from Florida State Prison, people prayed as an ...

The pastor of the church said the skit was about "killing the devil," and the video was spreading without proper context. In late June 2026, people shared a video appearing to show children at a ...

Oklahoma’s death row currently includes 21 inmates whose convictions span cases from 1992 through 2022. Oklahoma has executed 131 people since 1990, all by lethal injection. The state had a six-year ...

Alabama on Friday moved to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward. The Alabama Attorney General's office asked the Alabama Supreme ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Alabama from executing a man using nitrogen hypoxia, a relatively new method of carrying out the death penalty that experts say causes “air hunger” and that a ...

The unsigned decision for now spares Jeffery Lee, a convicted murderer, and could lead to a broader fight over the relatively new execution method. By Rick Rojas and Abbie VanSickle The Supreme Court ...