Our state has reached two gruesome milestones — the 50th execution in 50 years of the modern death penalty. Since 1976, when the U.S. Supreme Court approved new death sentencing schemes across the ...

South Carolina is poised to execute yet another man Friday. As a person of faith, I pray that our governor and state Supreme Court will show Stephen Bryant mercy and spare his life. As a South ...

“It’s hurting so bad,” Byron Black said five minutes after the State of Tennessee initiated his execution last month. The 69-year-old’s anguished words echoed through the death chamber as a device ...

Death row timelines vary by jurisdiction, but the average time for Florida inmates is around 22.6 years, according to 2023 Bureau of Justice Statistics data. Florida’s average is in line with other ...

Forty-eight years ago this month, murderer Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad in Utah. It had been nearly 10 years since an execution had been carried out in the U.S. Since Gilmore’s execution, ...

15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. As the justices make their final preparations this week for the start of the 2025-26 term, they’ll also address the latest ...

Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed ...

The number of death row inmates from Brevard County has dropped from 12 to three over the last decade. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has increased the pace of executions, with 19 inmates executed in 2025.

Men on death row are housed at Florida State Prison and Union Correctional Institution in Raiford southwest of Jacksonville. The women on death row are housed at the Lowell Annex south of Gainesville.