A Texas man became the first person executed in the U.S. this year. The man killed his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. At one point, he escaped prison for three days.

A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman during a 1989 robbery has become the first person executed in Florida this ...

A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman during a 1989 robbery has become the first person executed in Florida this year.

Billy Leon Kearse, 53, was pronounced dead at 6:24 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke.

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year ...

James Duckett, a former Central Florida police officer, is set for execution for the 1987 murder of 11-year-old Teresa Mae ...

Charles Victor Thompson was condemned for the April 1998 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend, Glenda Dennise Hayslip, 39, and her new boyfriend, Darren Keith Cain, 30, at her apartment in the Houston ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of killing a grocery store owner during a robbery is set to be executed on Tuesday evening, becoming the second person executed in Florida this year. Melvin Trotter, 65, ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a grocery store owner during a robbery is set Tuesday evening to become the second person executed in Florida this year. Melvin Trotter, 65, is scheduled ...