With 19 executions last year, Florida more than doubled its own record, and put more people to death than Texas, Alabama, and South Carolina combined. This execution spree came even as Florida’s ...

A man convicted of killing a Palmetto grocery store owner during a 1986 robbery was executed Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.

Attorneys for Melvin Trotter had long argued he was intellectually disabled, but he was put to death by lethal injection for ...

Trotter’s legal team long argued for mercy based on their client's intellectual disabilities and the fact that he was high on crack at the time of the crime and came to the store unarmed, ...

GOP lawmakers circulated a memo to reinstate the death penalty for certain child sex crimes, setting DNA and appeal rules.

As Melvin Trotter faces execution today for a 1986 killing in Florida, his attorneys argue his intellectual disability has ...

Florida carried out its second execution on Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. A group of 50 people held a vigil outside the Florida State ...

The state of Florida executed 66-year-old Melvin Trotter at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday for the murder and robbery of Manatee County grocery store owner Virgie Langford in 1986, according to the Florida ...

Melvin Trotter, convicted of a 1986 murder, faces execution in Florida today after the Supreme Court denied his appeals.

Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...