For much of the past week, tens of millions of people across the country have been celebrating Halloween. The holiday’s an annual opportunity for trick-or-treating children and partying adults to ...

If you grew up in the 20th century, it may seem like we can’t already be having centennial celebrations for events from the 1920s. When I first started writing this column in 1992, it wasn’t unusual ...

Florida executed Samuel Lee Smithers, a killer known as the “Deacon of Death,” on Tuesday evening for the 1996 murders of two women whose bodies were dumped in a pond. The execution is the 14th ...

Baptist deacon Samuel Lee Smithers was executed on Tuesday evening for the brutal murder of two sex workers back in 1996 A man convicted of brutally killing two women before dumping their bodies in a ...

A Florida killer known as the “Deacon of Death” was executed on Tuesday for the murders of two women whose bodies were found dumped in a pond in 1996, continuing a record 14 executions carried out by ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond in 1996 was put to death Tuesday evening in a record 14th execution this year in Florida. Samuel Lee ...

A man convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond in 1996 was put to death Tuesday evening in a record 14th execution this year in Florida. Samuel Lee Smithers, 72, was ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a Plant City pond is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday evening. Samuel Lee Smithers, 72, is set to receive ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of the 1996 killings of two women whose bodies were left in a rural pond was put to death Tuesday evening in a record 14th execution in Florida this year. Samuel Lee ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of the 1996 killings of two women whose bodies were left in a rural pond was put to death Tuesday evening in a record 14th execution in Florida this year. Samuel ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Tampa Bay murderer will be executed next month after a new order from Gov. Ron DeSantis. Friday, DeSantis signed a death warrant for Samuel Smithers, a former Plant City Baptist ...