Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...

GOP lawmakers circulated a memo to reinstate the death penalty for certain child sex crimes, setting DNA and appeal rules.

A man convicted of killing a Palmetto grocery store owner during a 1986 robbery was executed Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.

A repeat offender whose federal prison sentence was commuted by autopen during the final days of the Biden administration was arrested in St. Petersburg, Attorney ...

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 ...

The state of Florida executed 66-year-old Melvin Trotter at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday for the murder and robbery of Manatee County grocery store owner Virgie Langford in 1986, according to the Florida ...

Melvin Trotter was executed by lethal injection for the 1986 murder of 70-year-old Virgie Langford, a mother of four on the verge of retirement.

Protesters gathered outside Florida State Prison ahead of scheduled execution.

A man sentenced to death nearly 40 years ago for the murder of a grocery store owner was executed by lethal injection in Florida on Tuesday. Thirty-nine of last year's executions were carried out by ...

A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer during a traffic stop is set to be Florida’s third execution of 2026. Gov.

An off-duty Florida Department of Corrections officer was out for a jog on Saturday morning when a man shot at him, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to the shooting at ...

Florida is often described as a beacon for religious liberty, grounded in a simple constitutional truth: Government may neither establish religion nor prohibit its free exercise. That principle ...