Billy L. Kearse is scheduled for execution for the 1991 murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish. Kearse's attorneys have filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the execution, ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday granted clemency to a man on death row who was scheduled to be executed Thursday even though he did not personally kill anyone. Ivey commuted ...

Three men are scheduled for execution in Florida during the month of March. Billy Leon Kearse is set to be executed on March 3 for the 1991 murder of a police officer. Two other men, Michael King and ...

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 ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop was executed Tuesday evening in Florida, becoming the third person put to death by ...

Billy Leon Kearse was convicted of shooting Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish with his own service weapon. The Associated Press is an independent, not-for-profit news cooperative headquartered ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man was executed Tuesday evening for killing a young mother who frantically called 911 from her attacker’s cellphone while tied up in his car. Michael Lee King, 54, was ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Charles “Sonny” Burton said no one was supposed to get hurt during the 1991 AutoZone robbery that landed him on death row, and he only learned later that another man in the ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A North Texas man faces execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Trailing 118-116 with 5.2 seconds remaining in regulation, the Los Angeles Lakers knew Austin Reaves would intentionally miss his second free throw attempt against the Denver ...