Chadwick Willacy has been on Florida’s death row since 1991 for the murder of Marlys Sather. In 1990, Willacy assaulted Sather at her Palm Bay home and tried to strangle her with a phone cord. When that didn’t work, he set her on fire.

A Florida man who set his neighbor on fire after she returned from work to find him burglarizing her home was executed Tuesday evening.

A man just weeks from execution is asking the Florida Supreme Court to force state agencies to turn over records he says he needs to file a last-ditch appeal, setting up a legal showdown over what information condemned inmates can access before they die.

A Florida man who spent 35 years on Death Row for the murder of his neighbor was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, state prison officials said.Thirty-nine of last year's executions were

An Alabama inmate was executed by lethal injection on Thursday evening, the state's attorney general confirmed, marking the state's third execution this year. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was convicted on two counts of capital murder in the March 1998 fatal ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal injection. Nichols was sentenced to ...

Florida executed Chadwick Scott Willacy on April 21 for the 1990 murder of his neighbor, marking the state’s fifth execution of the year, as the victim’s family called the long-awaited sentence justice.