Convicted killer Marcelle Waldon was sentenced to death on Monday in Polk County in the killings of a former Lakeland city commissioner and her husband.

More than five years after the brutal murders of Edie Yates Henderson and David Henderson in their Lakeland home, Marcelle Waldon is sentenced to die.

The Florida Supreme Court on Oct. 1 upheld Mesac Damas' conviction and denied a request to review the legality of his death sentence.

A South Florida man convicted of murdering a 5-year-old girl after leaving her to be eaten alive by alligators in the Everglades nearly three decades ago is once again facing a possible death sentence.

A man sentenced to death for the 1980 rape and murder of a Seal Beach woman died in prison on Monday, Dec. 22 at the age of 80, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Wednesday.

A Miami man who threw a 5-year-old girl into the Everglades and left her to be eaten by alligators could again be condemned to die almost three decades after the girl's death.

Convicted of the 2020 murders of Edie Yates Henderson and David Henderson, Marcelle Waldon could get a death sentence Jan. 5.

21 YEARS AGO, ONE OF THE WORST DOMESTIC MURDERS IN CENTRAL FLORIDA HISTORY HIT THE CITY OF DELTONA. SIX PEOPLE WERE KILLED INSIDE A HOME IN WHAT’S NOW REFERRED TO BY MANY AS THE X BOX MURDERS. FOUR MEN WERE LATER CONVICTED IN THE KILLINGS, BUT 21 YEARS ...

LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) — A Lancaster man who was previously sent to death row was re-sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering a hip-hop artist at a concert in 2010. According to the Lancaster County District Attorney’s ...

About 4.1 percent of those who were sentenced to death between 1973 and 2004, or about 300 people, are likely innocent, according to new analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday. Courtesy of PNAS To reach their ...

Eaglin is arguing Florida’s new death penalty law is unconstitutional. The 2023 law makes it so a person can be sentenced to death if at least eight jurors vote for it. The rule changed the previous requirement from needing a unanimous vote.