A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman during a 1989 robbery has become the first person executed in Florida this year.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida’s first execution of 2026 is set to take place in February, following a record year for executions in the state. Gov. Ron ...

Oklahoma carried out its first execution of the year on 45-year-old Kendrick Simpson, who was convicted of killing two people in a drive-by shooting in 2006. He was executed at 10:19 a.m. on Thursday ...

Florida’s first execution of 2026 took place Tuesday, Feb. 10, ending the life of a man who spent more than 25 years on death row. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. by lethal ...

Ronald Palmer Heath is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6:00 p.m. today at Florida State Prison, marking the state’s first execution of the new year. Heath, 64, has spent over three decades on ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis issued the fifth death warrant of the year for James Duckett, sentenced to death for the 1987 rape and ...

STARKE, Fla. -- A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar was the first person executed in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounced dead at ...