It was just after 6 a.m. on a Monday and the Columbus Police Department in Georgia got the kind of call that sends an entire agency scrambling. A local mother reported that when she woke up that ...

DeSantis, who leaves office in January, oversaw a record 19 executions last year, more in a single year than any other Florida governor since the U.S. reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976.

A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before an ...

Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day, putting to death an 80-year-old man who was the second-oldest inmate known to receive a lethal ...

Dominick Occhicone is scheduled to become the oldest person ever executed in Florida's recorded history. Before recent executions of elderly inmates, the last person over 70 executed in Florida was in ...

Unless the U.S. Supreme Court issues a stay in time, Dominick Occhicone, convicted of killing his ex-fiancée's parents in 1986, is scheduled on July 28 to become the oldest person ever executed in ...

James Duckett and Dominick Occhicone were both put to death Tuesday for separate murder cases from the 1980s. James Duckett, left, and Dominick Occhicone, right, are both scheduled to be executed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This combo from photos provided by Florida Department of Corrections shows from left, James Aren Duckett and Dominick Anthony ...

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The state of Florida is scheduled to carry out two executions on Tuesday, July 28. James A. Duckett is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 12 p.m., followed by Dominick A. Occhicone Jr. at 6 p.m.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani to lead a high-level task force on examination reforms, a day after the Centre accepted all demands raised by the ...