After courts rejected arguments that he should not be executed because of his age, 72-year-old Samuel Smithers was put to ...

Florida on Tuesday executed a 72-year-old man for the 1996 murders of two women, as the state continues its record pace of ...

A Florida man convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday ...

On Friday, Indiana put Roy Ward to death, the state’s third execution since December. He was a 53-year-old white man who had been convicted in 2002 of the rape and murder of a teenage girl.

According to court records, Smithers met Christy Cowan and Denise Roach on different dates in May 1996 at a Tampa motel.

A man convicted of the 1996 killings of two women whose bodies were left in a rural pond was put to death Tuesday evening in a record 14th execution in Florida this year.

A 38-year-old inmate of the Blair County Prison is seeking a court-ordered injunction that would enable him to have at least one hour a day out of his cell. Joshua Lee Benz has become the latest ...

A man convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond has become the 14th person executed in Florida ...

Cazmere Haskins was sentenced to 40 years for a fatal stabbing. His attorney argues the sentence is “grossly disproportionate ...

A Florida man convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond was executed on Tuesday evening.

Samuel Lee Smithers, 72, was pronounced dead following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke.