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 ...

Florida has executed an inmate 35 years after he shot a police officer more than a dozen times during a traffic stop. Billy Leon Kearse was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, March 3, for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

STARKE, Florida — A Florida man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with the officer’s own service weapon during a traffic stop more than three decades ago was executed Tuesday evening at ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop is set to be Florida’s third execution of 2026, keeping the state on pace to ...

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 ...