LAKELAND, Fla. — Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd believes a former police officer who faced capital punishment this week for a murder in Lake County was also responsible for the abduction, rape and ...

STARKE, Fla. — A former Lake County police officer and an 80-year-old convicted of murders were executed Tuesday with two lethal injections planned in a single day in Florida. James Aren Duckett, 68, ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of fatally shooting two people outside a Florida bar in 1993 as part of an attempted revenge killing was executed Tuesday evening, the 26th person put to death in the ...