Oct. 15 (UPI) --Florida on Tuesday executed a 72-year-old death row inmate for the 1996 murders of two women, as the state continues its record pace of executions. Samuel Smithers was put to death by ...

The drifter who confessed to killing an inventor and his wife was executed Tuesday night, more than three decades after the double murder in their Miami business. Victor Tony Jones, 64, died by lethal ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected arguments aimed at preventing the scheduled Nov. 20 execution of Richard Barry Randolph in the 1988 murder of a Putnam County convenience-store manager.

A man convicted of the 1979 killing of a 6-year-old girl who was abducted from her bedroom was put to death Thursday evening in a record 16th execution in Florida this year. Barring a last-minute ...