Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could lead to a botched lethal injection.

The morbidly obese killer’s defense team argued his planned lethal injection would violate the Eighth Amendment, which protects against forms of cruel and unusual punishment.

The man who killed an Orangeburg police officer has decided he will be executed by firing squad, S.C. Department of ...

It was an all too familiar scene in Starke during the March 20 execution of Eddie James. Two groups trying to make sense of ...

Lawyers for convicted murderer Michael Tanzi say that his weight and health conditions could cause a lethal injection ...

Three men have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a brutal kidnapping and murder plot that resulted in the ...

Florida leads the nation in death row exonerations, where people on death row have later been found innocent of their crimes.

James Schwab, 22, of Peachtree Corners, Georgia, has been federally charged for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Michael Tanzi have taken their case to the Florida Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to ...