Florida's death row population is shrinking. The only two women awaiting the death sentence are both from the Pensacola area.

Seventeen women have been sentenced to death in Florida's history, but only two have been executed. The number of people on Florida's death row is dropping quickly as Gov. Ron DeSantis keeps up the ...

Hosted and produced by Linda Freund for KPFA Documentary filmmaker Linda Freund tells the story of Sabrina Butler-Smith, the first woman exonerated from death row in the United States. At 18, Sabrina ...

Florida nearly doubled the national average of executions in 2025, with a record-breaking 19 death warrants carried out, according to an annual report released by the Death Penalty Information Center.

At 44 executions and three more on the schedule, 2025 is on track to be the deadliest year on American death rows in more than a decade. Texas has, by far, led the nation in executions since the death ...

In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...