James Duckett, the former police officer convicted of raping and murdering 11-year-old Teresa McAbee, was slated to be executed March 31 until the Florida Supreme Court granted him a stay.

Florida prosecutors turned to a blood stain analyst to start off their case to keep Tommy Zeigler on death row Thursday. The hearing on new DNA evidence could lead to a retrial for Florida’s longest-serving death row inmate, who was convicted of the 1975 murders of four people at his Winter Garden furniture store.

Tommy Zeigler's 1976 conviction for the murders of his family members in Winter Garden is under scrutiny again. Forensic reanalysis is casting new doubts on the case of Florida's longest-serving death row inmate.

A judge will re-examine key evidence in the murder case of Tommy Zeigler, who has been on death row since being convicted in the killing of four people in Winter Garden in 1975.

An Oklahoma judge has exonerated a man who spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder, the longest serving inmate to be declared innocent of the crime.

Officials say a Florida death row inmate convicted of killing a deputy and two other people more than 40 years ago has died in prison.

A man who killed two women he met a day apart at north Florida bars in 1996 has been executed.

Next month’s scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate whose attorneys say gouged out both of his eyes because of severe mental illness was delayed by a judge.

The execution will mark the first one in Florida since 2019.

For the second time in recent weeks, a Florida prosecutor is granting DNA testing for a death row inmate who has maintained his innocence for more than four decades.

WASHINGTON – Two inmates have died in as many days from coronavirus at the federal prison complex where the U.S. government plans to carry out two executions next week. The executions of Christopher Andre Vialva and William Emmett LeCroy are scheduled to be carried out at the prison complex next week. The government carried out three executions in July and two executions in August. Witnesses to the federal executions are required to undergo security screening at the high-security penitentiary, where Bird was housed. The federal prison system has struggled to combat the coronavirus pandemic behind bars, where social distancing is nearly impossible.