James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, was executed by way of three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. Hitchcock was initially sentenced to death in 1977 after being convicted of first-degree murder in the July 31, 1976, killing of Cynthia Driggers.

A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who says prosecutors misused rap lyrics he wrote to secure his death sentence has been executed.

A Florida man convicted of killing his brother’s 13-year-old stepdaughter nearly 50 years ago has been put to death.

A Florida man who set his neighbor on fire when she came upon him burglarizing her home has been executed.