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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...