Death Penalty

The Scoop: WMNF’s daily digest of news headlines for Friday, April 14th, 2023

Floridians Against the Death Penalty held vigils across the state during Wednesday's execution to voice their opposition to capital punishment.

The Florida Supreme Court rejected arguments aimed at sparing the life of Death Row inmate Louis Gaskin, setting the stage for his execution next week.

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Opponents of the death penalty gathered on Thursday night to protest the execution of convicted murderer Donald Dillbeck.

In Florida’s first execution since 2019, Donald David Dillbeck was put to death by lethal injection at 6:13 p.m. Thursday.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block the scheduled execution of Donald Dillbeck, setting the stage for Florida's first execution since 2019.

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected appeals by a Death Row inmate who is scheduled to be executed next week.

Attorneys for convicted murderer Donald David Dillbeck requested that the Florida Supreme Court issue a stay of execution.

Death is indiscriminate and it is also inevitable. Unless you have been diagnosis with a terminal disease, most of us will never know what we will die from or when we will take our last...

A man on Florida’s death row was unsuccessful Thursday in getting another man to testify that he is innocent of the crime he was sentenced for. James Dailey is on death row, convicted of murder...

James Dailey is on death row for the 1985 murder in Pinellas County of 14-year-old Shelly Boggio; another man was also convicted of the murder who says he acted alone. In October WMNF interviewed an...