Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Billy Leon Kearse, the Fort Pierce man convicted of shooting and killing a police sergeant 35 years ago, was declared dead at 6:24 ...

Danny Parrish wanted to be a dad. The 29-year-old Army sergeant and his wife Mirtha were trying to get pregnant before he was to leave for Operation Desert Storm in 1991. The couple thought they had a ...

A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop was executed Tuesday evening in Florida, becoming the third person put to death by the state this ...

People gathered outside Florida State Prison before and after the execution of Billy Leon Kearse, the state of Florida’s third execution of the year, on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Raiford, Fla.