TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — This year, Florida has set a record for the number of executions. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed more death warrants this year than any of his predecessors, with 11 people being put ...

Top Stories from Dec. 18, 2025 OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) —The Okaloosa County Department of Corrections has been awarded ...

RAIFORD, Fla. – Richard Randolph died by lethal injection Thursday at 6:12 p.m. inside the Union Correctional Institution. More than three decades ago, he was sentenced to death for the rape and ...

Dozens and perhaps hundreds of individuals who applied to visit inmates at Everglades Correctional Institution (ECI) in Miami-Dade County last weekend had their personal contact information shared ...

A prison inmate in Florida, scheduled for execution within a week, has filed a lawsuit against state officials, alleging that the Department of Corrections has been using expired drugs in lethal ...

A man convicted of the 1994 killings of his wife and their two children became the ninth person put to death in Florida this year, his death Thursday marking a state record for a single-year execution ...

A 58-year-old Florida death row inmate claimed that prison officials used expired drugs and skimped on the doses for the last four executions in the state, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed a ...

Florida Department of Corrections and Centurion of Florida sued for failing to provide basic eye surgeries. Christopher O’Donnell is the health and medicine reporter. He can be reached at ...

More than two years after being deployed amid a major staffing crisis, the National Guard is set to leave Florida prisons after this month. Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022 announced a plan to use the ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of raping and fatal beating his manager at a Florida convenience store in 1988 was put to death Thursday evening in the state’s 17th execution this year. Richard ...

More than a month after Florida opened "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, the state and ICE signed an updated agreement spelling out how state corrections officials should handle federal ...

Prisoners in the Florida Department of Corrections system are often held under many of the same inhumane conditions present at Alligator Alcatraz. My uncle is one of them. Prisoners in the Florida ...