The story of convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad nearing execution on Tuesday in Virginia for crimes he committed in October 2002 piqued my interest ("Beltway Sniper's execution looms," Nation and World, Nov. 10). The interest is in the vast and stark differences between Florida's and Virginia's death-row process. ...more

November 11, 2009

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

A man sentenced to die for strangling a teenager 25 years ago will avoid execution for at least three weeks while his appeal of lethal injection procedures is considered, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Monday. ...more

October 6, 2008

A favorite parlor game, "Last Supper," asks guests to consider their final meal. Not to be confused with death row inmates and their fondness for final repasts of tacos and cheeseburgers, this version of Last Supper asks you to contemplate a life well-lived expressed by your most sensual food memories. ...more

September 28, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist signed a death warrant this week for a Central Florida man convicted of killing two young girls after raping their mother in 1993. ...more

July 12, 2008

Long-shot DNA testing may now be all that stands in the way of Samuel Jason Derrick's execution for stabbing a Moon Lake shopkeeper more than 30 times during a June 1987 robbery. ...more

May 30, 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

A quarter-century has elapsed since the United States experienced as long a pause in executions as the one the Supreme Court has occasioned with its current examination of lethal injections. ...more

January 7, 2008

The state did not execute any death row inmates this year for the first time in 25 years, the result of legal and ethical challenges to lethal injection that temporarily have halted executions nationwide. ...more

December 29, 2007

The lives of Richard and Kathleen Ross were taken in the middle of the night, their heads crushed with a baseball bat gripped in the hands of the son whom they loved. ...more

November 17, 2007