Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Melvin Trotter was executed on Feb. 24, 2026 for the 1986 killing of Virgie Langford in a Palmetto grocery store. Florida's ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - A Florida man convicted of killing a grocery store owner was executed Tuesday, marking the second execution in the state this year. His death comes amid a recent surge of executions ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man was executed Wednesday for breaking into a woman’s home and stabbing her to death in 1986, a crime committed months after he was released from prison for a rape.