A 77-year-old Florida man convicted of beating a woman to death with a hammer is scheduled Tuesday to become the 16th person executed this year in the nation's busiest death chamber. Curtis Wilkie ...

A cold-blooded Florida menace who slaughtered a teen girl was executed on Tuesday, marking the Sunshine State’s 14th execution this year. Harold Gene Lucas, 74, was pronounced dead at 6:18 p.m. after ...

In Tennessee, Christa Pike, the state's only woman on death row, was scheduled to be executed on Sept. 30 by lethal injection ...

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man convicted of fatally shooting a 16-year-old girl who rejected his romantic advances and wounding two of her friends is set to be executed Tuesday in the first of three ...

STARKE, Fla. — Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day, the last an 80-year-old man who was the second-oldest inmate known to receive a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida carried out the second of two executions in one day at 6 p.m. on July 28, by lethal injection at Florida State Prison near ...

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law is set to be executed Tuesday, continuing the state’s aggressive use of the death penalty in ...