death penalty

UWF government relations director Rachel Witbracht has an update on the legislative session.

The death penalty in Florida may be changing. Lawmakers in Tallahassee are proposing changes that would make it easier to send condemned convicts to the execution chamber.

Florida’s Supreme Court, according to some observers, may have provided a glimpse into the future of the state's death penalty statute. The justices…

On an 8-1 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday struck down Florida’s system of allowing judges, and not juries, to decide whether convicted murderers get…