Judge rejects plea deal in 2019 killing of Miami-Dade teacher
Judge Alberto Milian turned down the proposed sentence after Kameela Russell's mother said she wanted the case to go to trial.
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Judge Alberto Milian turned down the proposed sentence after Kameela Russell's mother said she wanted the case to go to trial.
Tamarius Davis pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the August 2021 shooting death of 21-year-old Dustin Wakefield.
A Utah prosecutor said Ted Bundy was responsible for killing 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith in 1974, a death that had long been listed as a cold case.
Tamarius Davis, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in May, testified on the second day of his sentencing hearing, where Wakefield's family is asking for a life sentence.
Tamarius Davis, who pleaded guilty in May to second-degree murder, heard Dustin Wakefield's parents and relatives speak at a sentencing hearing Monday.
Police arrested Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, on suspicion of strangling Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel.
Judge Michael Usan imposed the sentence a month after a jury convicted Shannon Ryan, though Leila Cavett's body has never been found.
Naquon Jahrell Fagan, 25, was the second suspect arrested in a crime spree of suspects impersonating police, kidnapping the victim, and killing him before burning the evidence.
Emotions ran high inside the courtroom when the verdict was read, with the victim's surviving son breaking down in tears.
Florida carried out its 18th execution this year under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' aggressive use of the death penalty.
Alberto Sierra pleaded guilty to killing Gladys Machado and her two daughters, Julia and Daniela.
Dwight C. Wells, the founder of "Bikes Up, Guns Down" was shot and killed in Liberty City in October 2025.
Deputies say Eddrick Bethune was abducted from a North Miami apartment following a shooting and was later found dead.
A tip from prison led Broward Sheriff's Office cold case detectives to Brittany Hanfield, charged with first-degree murder, and last week to a second suspect, Sheila Arstil.
Michelle Parker disappeared the same day that an episode of "The People's Court" aired that featured Parker and the suspect, Dale Smith Jr., in a contentious dispute over an engagement ring.
Duane "Keffe D" Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison Tuesday in Las Vegas for the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.
Florida executed a man who killed his cellmate to get a death sentence, the first state execution since the botched Christa Pike attempt.
Hours before DeSantis' action, the Florida Supreme Court denied William Lee Thompson's motion for a stay.
A doctor took the stand testifying Alberto Sierra's medical complications as argument for him to not be sentenced to death.
Detective Juan Chaidez testified that Alberto Sierra confessed days after the 2012 killings of his estranged wife and her two young daughters, after being confronted with DNA evidence.
Jesse Guardado, 64, is scheduled to be executed on Nov. 5 and would be the 20th person put to death in Florida this year, topping the 19 carried out in 2025.
The warrant signed by DeSantis is for James "Chicken Head" Robertson, 63, who is set to be the first of two executions to occur by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Stark on Oct. 13.
Detective Juan Chaidez, the day's only witness, described his first interview with Albert Sierra, who is on trial for the deaths of his estranged wife and her two daughters.
Tennessee canceled its remaining scheduled execution this year after Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row, survived two doses of a botched lethal injection. A witness said she was "clearly very alive."
Jurors weighing the death penalty for Alberto Sierra heard first responders describe finding his wife and two stepdaughters dead inside a closet in 2012.
