Death row inmate Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., who is awaiting execution for the murder of two Bay area women in 1986, has won a new trial - his fourth - in the slaying of a third woman that same year. ...more

March 21, 2009

Death row inmate Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., who is awaiting execution for the murder of two Bay area women in 1986, has won a new trial – his fourth – in the slaying of a third woman that same year. ...more

March 20, 2009

It took Wayne Tompkins about five minutes to fatally strangle his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter. ...more

February 12, 2009

It took Wayne Tompkins about five minutes to fatally strangle his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter. ...more

February 12, 2009

One death row inmate convicted of killing and robbing an elderly man will be retried. Another, who raped a pregnant woman and killed her husband, will get a new sentencing hearing. ...more

December 11, 2008

A death row inmate seeking to stave off execution for killing his girlfriend's teenage daughter lost three separate appeals Friday in the Florida Supreme Court. ...more

November 8, 2008

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a new evidentiary hearing in a 22-year-old Leon County murder case and said it must be sent outside the 2nd Judicial Circuit to avoid any appearance of judicial bias. ...more

September 26, 2008

The state Supreme Court has refused to rehear the appeal of a man convicted in the 1998 murder of Vicki Robinson. ...more

September 24, 2008

An 11-year-old boy gave out invitations to his classmates for a big event his family was planning this summer - and it wasn't his birthday party. ...more

August 29, 2008

The Supreme Court gave a skeptical hearing Monday to lawyers who are challenging the use of lethal injections to carry out executions in the United States. ...more

January 8, 2008