Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against a Fort Lauderdale man charged in the murder of his estranged wife ...

In another development, David Knezevich’s brother and his family were stopped at Miami International Airport after their trip ...

Under these changes, an illegal migrant convicted of a capital offense, such as murder or rape of a child, would receive a ...

After 48 years on death row, Tommy Zeigler finally has succeeded in his battle for testing. The results could mark a ...

Zeigler’s cousin: New DNA evidence will exonerate Florida's longest-serving death row inmate NFL Has Plan to Combat ...

A Death Row inmate scheduled for execution next month is appealing to the Florida Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to ...

Ziegler's attorneys say DNA evidence proves Zeigler didn't commit the murders of his wife and in-laws that landed him on death row almost five decades ago.

There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, ...

Lawyers for a man on death row in Florida say DNA evidence shows he could not have carried out the 1975 murders of his wife and in-laws. Tommy Ziegler was convicted of the murders of his wife ...

Zeigler was nearly 31 years old when he was sentenced to death for two of the four murders that happened on Christmas Eve, 1975. He turns 80 in July.