Florida is known for being an actively pro-gun state. In 2023, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law allowing people to carry concealed weapons and firearms without background checks, training or a concealed ...

A former head high school basketball coach was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after being found guilty of the rape ...

A former New York City police sergeant was sentenced to 1-1/2 years in prison on Wednesday over his 2023 conviction for ...

A Florida man who was texting when the dump truck he was driving crashed into and crushed a pickup truck in New Smyrna Beach, ...

Ten New York prison guards were charged Wednesday in connection with the fatal beating of a 22-year-old prison inmate, including two ...

Glen Edward Rogers, 62, is set to die by lethal injection May 15 at Florida State Prison near the city of Starke.

The GEO Group wants to open a 1,200-bed detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But the city has gone ...

Roughly three-quarters of Florida prisons lack AC. Despite wide acknowledgment that Florida must cool its cells as ...

Kathan Guzman was supposed to be serving life in prison for killing his 19-year-old girlfriend Delila Grayson in Georgia in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C -- Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have ...

Florida on Tuesday evening executed a 48-year-old death row inmate who kidnapped and murdered a woman in 2000, marking the ...

It’s done. Basically, justice for Janet happened,” said Acosta’s sister, Julie Andrew, who attended the execution. ”My heart felt lighter and I can breathe again.” ...