David Pittman, 63, is scheduled to be executed Sept. 17 at Florida State Prison, according to documents posted on the Florida Supreme Court website.
On Tuesday, the state of Florida is set to execute Michael Bernard Bell for the 1993 murders of two people outside the Moncrief Liquors and Lounge. If carried out, Bell’s execution will mark the eighth in Florida in 2025.
In Bradford County attorneys are trying to convince the judge that Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson should not be put to death.
While Allen Lee Davis’ execution was historic for Florida as the last to use the electric chair, we want to tell the story of the Jacksonville case that landed him on Death Row in the first place: the murder of 37-year-old Nancy Weiler and her two young daughters, Kristina and Katherine.
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office.
Attorneys are calling the changes to Florida’s death penalty law a real problem that could set up years of litigation.
One day after Governor DeSantis signed new legislation which lowers the threshold for a jury vote on death penalty cases, there's one very important unanswered question, in which cases will the law apply?
Defense attorneys in two death penalty cases are challenging what they say is a discriminatory jury selection process.
Markeith Loyd on Wednesday became the latest person to be handed a death penalty recommendation by a jury in Florida, stemming from his guilty verdict in the 2017 murder of Orlando police Lt. Debra Clayton.
