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Kayle Bates was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, armed robbery and attempted sexual battery in the1982 slaying of 24-year-old Janet Renee White of Lynn Haven.

Tuesday’s decision came hours after several religious leaders from across the state marched to the Capitol to call on Gov. Ron DeSantis to pause executions.

Florida may carry out more executions in 2025 than in any other year in recent history. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed nine death warrants so far. Seven have been carried out.

Edward J. Zakrzewski II pleaded guilty to strangling his wife to death and using a machete to kill his two children in Okaloosa County. He is slated for execution July 31.

The state of Florida carried out its seventh execution of 2025 on Tuesday. An eighth is scheduled, which would be the most in one year since the death penalty was reinstated. Why so many?

Michael Bell, 54, is scheduled to die by lethal injection July 15 for the mistaken-revenge killing of two people outside of Jacksonville bar in 1993.

Rogers, 62, received a lethal injection at Florida State Prison. He was convicted in the fatal stabbing of Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two. Rogers is the fifth inmate put to death in Florida this year.

Higgs had been sentenced to death for the 1996 killings of three women. His lawyers had tried to argue that his diagnosis of COVID-19 would make death by lethal injection "cruel."

A serial killer who preyed on older, gay men during an eight-month spree that left six dead on or near the U.S. East Coast a quarter century ago is…

While the state of Florida is set to execute the first person in more than a year and a half, 150 other Death Row inmates await new sentences. The death...

Florida's new death-penalty sentencing process should apply to prosecutions that were already underway when the new law went into effect this month, a...

Taking an approach backed by prosecutors and Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Florida House on Wednesday is slated to take up a bill that would revamp...