UPDATE: 3/11/26 at 12:28 p.m.: The governor of Alabama granted clemency to Charles “Sonny” Burton just two days before he was scheduled to be executed. Governor Kay Ivey said she could not “proceed in ...

Virgie Langford was ready for retirement. For five decades, the 70-year-old ran a mom-and-pop grocery store in Palmetto along Florida's Gulf Coast. The neighborhood had gotten dangerous, Langford got ...

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Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a death warrant for former police officer James Duckett, convicted of the 1987 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Duckett's execution is the fifth scheduled in ...

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