Travis Garrett was sentenced to 45 years in Florida State Prison for his role in the death of HCSO Sgt. Brian LaVigne, who ...

The state sends people to Florida prisons for murders and rapes they didn’t commit and then continues the injustice once they ...

Florida does not offer parole for most inmates incarcerated in its correctional facilities. But under a bill that passed in a ...

Tanzi’s lawyers argue the state’s lethal-injection procedure would violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual ...

A Florida woman was sentenced Tuesday to 16 years in state prison after pleading no contest to multiple charges, including ...

STARKE, Fla. — A Florida man who killed an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother on a night in which he drank heavily and used ...

A Tampa Bay lawmaker is fighting for legislation that would protect the rights of prisoners in the state’s corrections system ...

Only eight states across the U.S. specifically authorize the use of lethal gas to carry out executions. Only five allow the ...

The bill would allow people in Florida’s prisons to use credit hours and coursework toward a license for careers such as ...

People sentenced to death in Florida could be executed by firing squads, nitrogen gas or other methods under a bill that ...

A bill could make firing squads and lethal gas options in Florida executions as a shortage of pentobarbital, used for lethal ...

Prison officials said Edward James, 63, was pronounced dead at 8:15 p.m. after receiving a three-drug injection.