Arrest made in killing of Miami activist Dwight Wells, police say
Dwight C. Wells, the founder of "Bikes Up, Guns Down" was shot and killed in Liberty City in October 2025.
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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.
The death penalty phase begins for Alberto Sierra, who pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife and her two young daughters in 2012.
More than two years after an Atlanta man was found dead during a Fourth of July trip to his family, police have arrested his boyfriend in Miami for his killing.
A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the "Hog Trail Murders" in the 1990s became the state's 15th person executed this year.
Isabelle Johnson was arrested by the U.S.Marshals Task Force at a home in Cottondale, northwest of Tallahassee, on Thursday.
The Prieto Law Firm and Puglisi-Carames, Clenney's attorney, confirmed that a plea deal has been reached, but said in a statement that "the terms of the agreement are not final until accepted by the Court."
Alberto Sierra, 42, admitted in court to stabbing his wife and suffocating her 2 daughters more than a decade ago.
James Aren Duckett, 68, now awaits action on a similar request from the U.S. Supreme Court.
William Frances Silvia, 61, is scheduled for execution by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on Aug. 18, according to the warrant.
Ja'twan Phillips appeared in court Tuesday after being linked to a gang-related shooting that left one person dead in July 2024.
Over 40 years after Patty Gifford vanished, her family sees justice in Dennis Sochor's execution, but their search for her remains goes on.
Gregory DaSilva appeared before a judge on Wednesday morning and was ordered held without bond.
