TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - For the first time in nearly two decades, a Florida prison inmate is demanding that he be put to death in an electric chair, rather than by lethal injection. Florida ...

With 19 executions last year, Florida more than doubled its own record, and put more people to death than Texas, Alabama, and South Carolina combined. This execution spree came even as Florida’s ...

Billy Kearse, on Florida's death row for the 1991 murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish, was executed by lethal injection March 3.