The entrance to Florida State Prison is seen near Starke, where the Florida Department of Corrections houses inmates ...

Florida executed two men within five hours as its 2026 pace climbed. Here’s how death warrants, court rulings and state ...

Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day,​ putting to death an 80-year-old man who was the second-oldest inmate known to receive a ...

Dominick Anthony Occhicone, the octogenarian, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke after a three-drug injection. His execution came nearly five hours after the former ...

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 ...

Florida put to death one of its oldest prisoners in its history on Tuesday, a 74-year-old convicted murderer who was one of three older inmates scheduled for execution within the span of a month in ...

STARKE, Fla. -- Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day, putting to death an 80-year-old man who was the second-oldest inmate known to ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Florida on Tuesday is scheduled to execute two prisoners on the same day in a nearly unprecedented move that underscores the state’s rush to clear a backlog of long-delayed death ...

Several local state prisons are eligible for a new $1,000 hiring bonus offered by the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) ...

A Florida prison gynecologist and his employer agreed to pay five women $100,000 after they filed a lawsuit alleging the ...

Chadwick Scott Willacy, convicted of first-degree murder for setting his elderly neighbor on fire after she allegedly caught him burglarizing her home, maintained his innocence right before being ...

In a recent case, Circuit Judge Mark Jones sentenced William Edward Madalinski after he pleaded no contest and was adjudicated guilty in two separate drug cases ...