ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida’s longest-serving death row inmate is trying to convince a judge to let him get a new trial. Tommy Zeigler claims new evidence supports his innocence. Zeigler, who has been on ...

Men on death row are housed at Florida State Prison and Union Correctional Institution in Raiford southwest of Jacksonville. The women on death row are housed at the Lowell Annex south of Gainesville.

Florida’s current three-legged electric chair, nicknamed “Old Sparky,” was built of oak by Florida Department of Corrections staff and installed at Florida State Prison in Raiford in 1999. Legislation ...

The Polk County Sheriff's Office recently settled a lawsuit over the death of Shaun Seaman, who was killed by a violent ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Three inmates who escaped from a jail east of Atlanta, including one who was being held on a murder charge, have been apprehended in Florida, a member of a federal fugitive task force ...