FILE - Clouds hover over the entrance of the Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla., Aug. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Curt Anderson, File) (Curt Anderson, Copyright 2025 The ...

Dusty Ray Spencer, the oldest inmate sentenced to die in Florida's modern history, is set to be executed later today. Spencer, now 74, was convicted of killing his wife, Karen, 34 years ago in Orange ...

Oklahoma’s death row currently includes 21 inmates whose convictions span cases from 1992 through 2022. Oklahoma has executed 131 people since 1990, all by lethal injection. The state had a six-year ...

Netflix’s June 2026 documentary Maternal Instinct has reignited public interest in one of the most disturbing crimes in recent Texas history: the 2020 killing of pregnant 21-year-old Reagan ...

The governor of Alabama has set the execution date for 40-year-old Jeremy Williams, who was convicted in 2024 of the 2021 killing of Kamarie Holland, 5. On Dec. 13, 2021, Holland was reported missing.

A circuit court judge denied a hearing on the DNA analysis, stating it did not belong at the trial court level. The defense claims the state destroyed the original DNA sample by using an inappropriate ...

In November 2022, Taylor Parker was sentenced to death for murdering Reagan Simmons-Hancock and kidnapping her unborn child. More than three years later, has a date been set for her execution? Parker, ...

A historic mayoral runoff election and the time frame for the execution date of a 5-year-old girl’s killer — these are among last week’s top news stories in Columbus. Here are key takeaways from the ...

PHENIX CITY, Ala. (WRBL) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has set an execution date this summer for a Columbus man who brutally murdered and sexually assaulted a 5-year-old girl. The 2021 murder of Kamarie ...

Alabama plans to execute Jeremy Williams by lethal injection in August for a murder, rape and trafficking of a five-year-old committed in 2021, the state's governor has announced. Alabama Gov. Kay ...

Add WDRB as a preferred source on Google to ensure that local news and weather from WDRB appears more often in Top Stories when relevant to your search. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Indiana's attorney ...