A Highlands County jury was picked Monday and testimony is scheduled to begin Thursday in the case of an Avon Park man accused of shooting another in the chest last December. ...more

December 16, 2009

It looks like the prosecution will not be seeking the death penalty against former Avon Park police officer James Parker. ...more

December 11, 2009

This jury will not decide guilt or innocence, but rather life or death. ...more

March 21, 2009

Tales of mental illness and a hard-luck childhood have become standard defense testimony in death penalty cases. ...more

March 20, 2009

The federal appeals court in Atlanta has declined to overturn lower court decisions against a new sentencing hearing for Patrick Charles Hannon, condemned for cutting one man's throat and fatally shooting another in Tampa 18 years ago. ...more

March 19, 2009

Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the slayings of two Wesley Chapel High students. ...more

March 19, 2009

A jury deliberated for five hours Wednesday before finding Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. guilty of first-degree murder in the slayings of two Wesley Chapel High students. ...more

March 19, 2009

Jurors have begun deliberating whether Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. took a pair of teenagers to a dirt road two years ago and shot them both in the head. ...more

March 18, 2009

Plans to begin the first-degree murder trial of Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. on Wednesday went by the wayside as jury selection dragged on for a third day. ...more

March 12, 2009

Plans to begin the first-degree murder trial of Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. today went by the wayside as jury selection dragged on for a third day. ...more

March 11, 2009