Death Penalty

Moments before receiving a lethal injection, Billy Kearse asked for forgiveness from the family of Danny Parrish, whose widow said she found peace after a "long, long 35 years.”

Melvin Trotter was found guilty of the fatal stabbing of the woman in Palmetto in 1986.

Florida executed the condemned killer, Ronald Heath, on Tuesday after he spent nearly four decades on Death Row. He was twice convicted of separate murders 12 years apart, and identified as the suspect in a third murder case that never went to trial.

The conversation starters for "Florida Matters Live & Local" include Florida's execution pace and some Super Bowl talk that has nothing to do with Seahawks and Patriots.

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

Ronald Palmer Heath is scheduled to die by lethal injection Feb. 10. According to court records, Heath and his brother robbed and killed a traveling salesman they met a bar in 1989.

Frank Walls' death sentence would be Florida's 19th in 2025, furthering a state record for total executions in a single year. Appeals were still pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Frank Walls is convicted of killing two people after breaking into their Okaloosa County home in 1987.

Mark Geralds became the 18th person put to death in Florida this year, further extending the state's record for total executions in a single year.

Richard Barry Randolph, 63, was sentenced to death for killing his former manager at a Palatka convenience store.

Frank Athen Walls faces a Dec. 18 lethal injection for the murder of a couple during home invasion robbery. Walls would be the 19th person set for execution in Florida in 2025.

On "The Florida Roundup," Curtisia Windom opens up about discovering her father killed her mother, grandmother and another man.