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According to authorities at a hearing Tuesday, the man suspected of wounding six and fatally shooting five people at a Florida airport told investigators initially he was under government mind control and then claimed to be inspired by Islamic State websites and chatrooms.

Esteban Santiago, the suspect accused of opening fire at a Fort Lauderdale airport, appeared in court Monday.

In 2016, Donald Trump was elected to the White House. The Cubs won the World Series. And Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In other words, it was the kind of year that seemed designed to make Florida news look normal.

Justice James E.C. Perry on Thursday rendered a blistering analysis of the manner in which the death penalty is carried out in Florida.

More than half of Florida's inmates sentenced to death may avoid execution under a far-reaching ruling handed down by the state's Supreme Court.

Lawyers for a Death Row inmate Larry Darnell Perry are blasting Attorney General Pam Bondi's request that the Florida Supreme Court clarify a decision that struck down a new law because it did not require unanimous jury recommendations in death-penalty cases.

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a new trial for a convicted killer who has spent more than four decades on Death Row for a racially charged murder during civil unrest in the Jacksonville area. The unanimous decision — a rarity in death penalty cases in which convictions are …