In September, a federal Judge certified a class action allowing more than 1,500 inmates to collectively challenge prison heat conditions they say increase the risk of illness and death.

Recent headlines about Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center have centered on funding disputes, reimbursement rules, environmental reviews, and a contested $608 million price tag ...

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Billy Kearse, on Florida's death row for the 1991 murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish, was executed by lethal ...

A man convicted of killing a 70-year-old grocery store owner has been put to death in Florida, becoming the second person executed by the state this year after a record 19 executions in 2025. Melvin ...

Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network’s Death Penalty Abolition Program. It is Emmjolee Mendoza Waters. The correct ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ronald Heath, 64, was executed by lethal injection in Florida for the murder of a traveling salesman (-) (-/Florida Department of ...

Florida Lieutenant Gov. Jay Collins — now a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor — traveled to the Panhandle Monday to promote Gov. Ron DeSantis’ budget request to raise starting pay ...

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 ...

The state has used its Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund to pay for immigration measures, including detention centers. State-run immigration detention centers, such as Alligator Alcatraz and ...

Florida is often described as a beacon for religious liberty, grounded in a simple constitutional truth: Government may neither establish religion nor prohibit its free exercise. That principle ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis is requesting the Legislature provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) in his proposed fiscal year 2026-2027 budget, but a Democratic ...