A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop has been executed in ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis issued the fifth death warrant of the year for James Duckett, sentenced to death for the 1987 rape and ...

Billy Kearse, convicted of killing a Fort Pierce officer in 1991, faces execution today. His attorneys filed a last-minute ...

Billy Leon Kearse, 53, was pronounced dead at 6:24 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke.

A man convicted of killing a 70-year-old grocery store owner has been put to death in Florida, becoming the second person ...

Florida man Billy Leon Kearse, 53, scheduled for execution Tuesday after prosecutors say he fatally shot police officer Danny Parrish in 1991 traffic stop.

Billy Leon Kearse shot police officer Danny Parrish more than a dozen times with the officer’s gun.

With 19 executions last year, Florida more than doubled its own record, and put more people to death than Texas, Alabama, and South Carolina combined. This execution spree came even as Florida’s ...

A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m.

Billy Leon Kearse was executed for the 1991 killing of Fort Pierce Police Sgt. Danny Parrish. He was declared dead at 6:24 p.m.