Loved ones, prosecutors and officers reacted with relief after a jury returned a death sentence for Joshua Rocha in the 2022 ...

A Fort Pierce murder case with no trial date after seven years behind bars — and hundreds of thousands in taxpayer-funded defense costs — has the victim’s family demanding answers.

State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...

C OLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A local prosecutor in South Carolina said Tuesday he will seek the death penalty against a man whose ...

Prosecutors with the State Attorney's 7th Judicial Circuit intend to seek the death penalty against the man accused of shooting and killing an off-duty Edgewater Police Officer at a Circle K gas ...