A Florida man who prosecutors say wrestled a police officer’s service weapon away during a 1991 traffic stop and fatally shot him was executed Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his ...

A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop was executed Tuesday evening in Florida. Billy Leon Kearse, 53, became the third person put to ...

STARKE, Fla. — 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 ...

Florida has scheduled multiple executions for March 2026, including those of Billy Leon Kearse and James Duckett. James Duckett, a former police officer, was sentenced for the 1987 rape and murder of ...

STARKE, Fla. — 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 ...

RAIFORD, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for James Duckett, a former Central Florida police officer convicted of killing an 11-year-old girl more than 30 years ago. Duckett’s execution ...

Three men are scheduled for execution in Florida during the month of March. Billy Leon Kearse is set to be executed on March 3 for the 1991 murder of a police officer. Two other men, Michael King and ...

Billy Leon Kearse was executed on March 3 for the 1991 murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish. Kearse was 18 when he shot and killed Parrish during a traffic stop, and was sentenced to ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Billy Leon Kearse is scheduled to be executed Tuesday at 6 p.m. for the 1991 murder of Fort Pierce Police Sgt. Danny Parrish — a killing that has haunted the victim's family, ...

Billy L. Kearse is scheduled for execution for the 1991 murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish. Kearse's attorneys have filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the execution, ...

We are here at Florida State Prison where Billy Kurst was executed this evening after nearly three decades on death row. It was in January of 1991 when Fort Pierce police officer Danny Parish stopped ...