Bates abducted White from the State Farm insurance office where she worked, took her into some woods behind the building, ...

Kayle Barrington Bates, 67, is scheduled to be executed Aug. 19 at Florida State Prison and could be the 10th inmate put to ...

More than 43 years after Janet White was abducted from a Bay County insurance office and murdered, Gov. Ron DeSantis on ...

More than 43 years after Janet White was abducted from a Bay County office and murdered, Gov. DeSantis signed a death warrant ...

Florida executed a man this week and is scheduled to put another to death this month, setting a modern-day record for the state and underscoring an unsettling trend for the nation. Michael Bell was ...

The 32-year-old pleaded guilty in December 2023 to killing his ex-wife, three of her family members and their dogs.

The Vero Beach area men, ages 20 and 21, each were indicted July 15 on 5 charges, including first-degree murder.

We’re in the midst of something historic,” said Robert Dunham, director of the Death Penalty Policy Project, as the U.S. braces for its highest number of executions in a decade. The focus is on ...

With Michael Bell's execution in Florida on Tuesday, the U.S. has now had more executions in any given year since 2015, when ...

Florida carried out its 26th execution of the year on Tuesday, July 15, marking a milestone that already exceeds the total number of executions carried out in the U.S. in 2024. Gov. Ron DeSantis ...

The execution of Michael Bernard Bell marks the 26th person put to death in the US in 2025, surpassing 2024's total with more than five months left on the calendar.

Michael Bell's execution highlights the troubling legacy of childhood trauma inflicted at Florida's reform schools, raises ...