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Nearly four decades after murdering Georgianna Worden, a mother, and teenage babysitter Karen Slattery, Duane Owen was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison.

Death penalty researchers say the record-high number of mishandled executions put into question states' ability to perform them.

Other detainees also face the possibility of the death penalty for their involvement in the protests, which began in mid-September, first as an outcry against Iran's morality police.

Both executions and death sentences have declined dramatically since their peak in the late 1990s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Florida is scheduled to execute its next Death Row inmate next month.Gov. Rick Scott signed a new death warrant on Friday setting the execution of Michael…

Florida Governor Rick Scott has set a date for the execution of Michael Lambrix.

Executions have been on hold in Florida since the Supreme Court deemed parts of the state's sentencing procedure unconstitutional in January 2016. Mark Asay is scheduled to be executed on Aug. 24.

Florida is an outlier when it comes to sentencing people to death.A new report looked at each of the 3,143 county or county equivalents in the country to…

Attorneys for a convicted murderer scheduled to be put to death on St. Patrick's Day are asking the Florida Supreme Court for a stay, arguing that records…

Update 10/29/2015 11:55 p.m. -- Jerry Correll was pronounced dead at 7:36 p.m. Thursday night, ten minutes after the execution procedure began. He had no…

Florida’s lethal injection procedure is constitutional according to a decision out Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court, the final day of decisions for this…

Over the last several years, European drug manufacturers have tried to limit the use of their products in lethal injection executions. As a result, death…