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lorida has executed a prisoner who killed his cellmate in 2008 so he could get on death row and avoid spending the rest of his days in jail. James Robertson's execution by lethal injection on Tuesday comes amid increased attention on the death penalty after the failed lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee two weeks ago. Florida leads the nation in executions, carrying out more than half of the 31 total in the U.S. so far this year.

Ex-police officer James Aren Duckett was pronounced dead after a three-drug injection Tuesday afternoon at Florida State Prison. He was convicted of the 1987 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Hours later, 80-year-old Dominick Anthony Occhicone was executed for the 1986 killing of his ex-girlfriend’s parents.

Former police officer James Aren Duckett is set to receive a lethal injection at noon Tuesday for the 1987 rape and murder of a young girl. Six hours later, 80-year-old Dominick Anthony Occhicone is scheduled to become the oldest inmate executed in Florida's modern history and the second-oldest in the U.S. — for a double murder conviction.

A man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman near Florida's Capitol 32 years ago is set to be executed by lethal injection.

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

In a move that would be certain to spur more litigation over the state's already embattled death penalty, Florida corrections officials appear to be...

Lawyers for Death Row inmate Jerry Correll on Monday backed a decision by the Florida Supreme Court to send his case back to a circuit judge, after...

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Before his execution by lethal injection in Florida State Prison on September 28, Manuel Valle had spent 33 years on Death Row for killing Coral Gables…