Convicted murderer Frank Walls was executed at 6:11 p.m. ET on Dec. 18, 38 years after the brutal murders of Ann Peterson and Edward Alger in Okaloosa County. Walls was originally sent to Florida's ...

Florida executed a man Thursday convicted of fatally shooting a man and a woman during a home invasion robbery and who later confessed to three other killings, marking the state’s 19th execution of ...

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Frank Walls was convicted of two murders during a home invasion robbery in Okaloosa County and later confessing to three other killings. Frank Walls' death sentence would be Florida's 19th in 2025, ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for Frank Walls on Nov. 18, and his execution by lethal injection is set to take place Thursday, Dec. 18. He will be the 19th Florida inmate to be put to death ...

Dec. 18 (UPI) --Florida upped its execution record to 19 after enforcing the death penalty via lethal injection on Frank Athen Walls, who was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. EST on Thursday. Walls, 58, ...

A death row inmate who as a teenager killed five people and terrorized a community has been executed. Frank Athen Walls, 58, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, Dec. 18, for the 1987 murder ...

It would be Florida’s 19th death sentence carried out in 2025, further extending a state record for total executions in a single year. The state of Florida on Thursday executed the 19th person of 2025 ...

Our editors' top picks to read today. When something goes wrong, prison staff absorb the consequences. Inmates awaiting impending execution are housed at Florida State Prison in Bradford County.