Florida inmates with bad eyesight because of cataracts and other issues were forced to wait years for surgery, state records show. Some were transported to the Reception and Medical Center, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Men on death row are housed at Florida State Prison and Union Correctional Institution in Raiford southwest of Jacksonville. The ...

Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in Palmetto, Florida.

Convicted killer Wade Wilson is one of eight death row inmates connected to Southwest Florida crimes. Seven of the inmates are from Lee County, while one is from Collier County. Some inmates, like ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...