Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Men on death row are housed at Florida State Prison and Union Correctional Institution in Raiford southwest of Jacksonville. The ...

Final meal revealed for death row inmate who killed Florida grocery store owner - His attorneys argued his advanced age of 65 ...

A man convicted of killing a 70-year-old grocery store owner 39 years ago has been put to death in Florida - the second person executed by the state in 2026. Melvin Trotter, 65, was executed at 6.15pm ...

Texas executed Charles Victor Thompson for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend, Dennise Hayslip, and her new boyfriend, Darren Cain, in 1998.

Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in Palmetto, Florida.

Florida nearly doubled the national average of executions in 2025, with a record-breaking 19 death warrants carried out, according to an annual report released by the Death Penalty Information Center.