News

As Michael Bell execution nears, a look at Duval County's role in Florida's executions
Michael Bell will be the 50th person from Duval County put to death in Florida. But Duval's ties to Florida's executions run ...
Report: Michael Bell is one of 50 sent to infamous state reform schools who ended up on death row
A nonprofit identified at least 50 people who attended Dozier and Okeechobee, a similar state-run reform school, who ended up ...
No stay, Florida executes Michael Bell for 1993 slayings in Jacksonville
It's done. Michael Bell, 54, has been lethally injected for the 1993 ambush murders of a young couple in Jacksonville in a ...
A tragic legacy: Dozens of Florida reform school kids wound up on state's death row
Michael Bell's execution highlights the troubling legacy of childhood trauma inflicted at Florida's reform schools, raises ...
Opinion
Editorial: One Florida death factory leads to another
The latest Florida death row inmate to be executed spent part of his boyhood at the horrific Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna. Michael Bell was one of 34 former Dozier inmates who ...