Kayle Bates was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, armed robbery and attempted sexual battery in the 1982 Bay ...

Governor Ron DeSantis has approved Kayle Barrington Bates’s execution, which will match the record for the most executions in ...

Florida schedules the execution of Kayle Bates for the 1982 murder of Janet White, marking the state's increase in capital ...

The prosecution’s case against a Delray man in a 2019 Fort Lauderdale murder is too clear to be credible, the defense says, ...

A Central Florida man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his girlfriend's 13-year-old daughter, who went missing ...

A man accused of raping and murdering his girlfriend’s 13-year-old daughter in central Florida last year is expected to plead guilty in the horrific crime.

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — The man accused of sex crimes and murdering 13-year-old Madeline Soto is expected to be in court on ...

Stephan Sterns, the former boyfriend of Soto’s mother, appeared in a Florida courtroom Monday where he pleaded no contest in ...

Bates, 67, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Aug. 19 at Florida State Prison. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant last Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 ...

A man convicted of abducting and killing a woman from a Florida insurance office more than four decades ago is scheduled to ...