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 ...

The defense for a man in Florida scheduled to be executed on Tuesday filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court to pause the execution. According to court documents filed on Saturday, Suzanne Myers ...

Billy Leon Kearse is scheduled for execution 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 ...