Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The retired Palm Bay detective who solved the horrific 1990 murder of a widow beaten with a hammer and set on fire by a young next ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant Friday for James Aren Duckett, a former police officer convicted of the 1987 sexual battery and murder of 11-year-old Teresa McAbee. Duckett is ...

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed the death warrant for a man convicted in the 1990 murder of his Palm Bay neighbor who found him burglarizing her home. Chadwick Willacy, 58, is ...

James Aren Duckett, a former police officer convicted of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1987, will be executed by lethal injection later this month after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ...

This is the seventh death warrant DeSantis has signed this year. The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on desktop, ...

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