Florida was one of only three states to both execute someone and put more people on death row in 2024. Florida also has more wrongful convictions than any other state.

The death penalty is being considered for a man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and taking his daughters to Mexico.

While some advocates praise the commutations as a step toward ending capital punishment, others are outraged.

Corey Smith, the John Doe Gang leader during the ’90s in Miami’s Liberty City, has been fighting in state and federal courts ...

People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...

President Joe Biden's record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed.

A lawyer who represented Juan Baron when he pleaded guilty to the 2022 murder, theft and ID theft of 73-year-old Hawaii Loa ...

Two inmates on federal death row whose death sentences were commuted ... said they had not requested a commutation and that accepting one could hinder their appeals, according to court documents ...

I seriously accept the verdict. Q: What were your emotions the moment you heard the death sentence being read in court? A: Because I am human, I felt a shock when the ultimate penalty was read out.

Of the 780 people ever detained at Guantánamo, 540 were released during the presidency of George W. Bush, who established the detention facility. Obama, who signed an executive order on his second day ...

Instead, they are making calculations about what gives them the best chance to get off death row. Agofsky contends, as the Post notes, that “accepting the commutation would complicate his ...

Details of those deals remain under seal, but they are known to have ruled out the death penalty ... he could proceed with a hearing to accept at least one defendant’s guilty pleas as ...