Miami jurors will decide whether Harrel Braddy will remain in prison for the rest of his life or die by lethal injection.

The man who dumped a 5-year-old girl in the Everglades — leaving her to die by alligators — had his life spared by a jury Friday afternoon in a Miami-Dade courtroom.

The two former detainees also testified that they were forced to sign documents to be deported without speaking to their attorneys first.

State and federal officials who had been scheduled to attend the conference in Naples this week said Wednesday they would not attend, leaving organizers scrambling to replace speakers.

Harrel Braddy was convicted of the 1998 murder of Quatisha 'Candy' Maycock following a criminal trial in 2007, but a decade later his death penalty sentence was reversed following a Supreme Court deci

Civil rights attorneys are seeking a temporary injunction to ensure detainees have the same legal access as those in federally-run centers.

In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.

The immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades has been embroiled in controversy even before it opened last summer. But a key component is how environmentalists are fighting to shut it down. Along the Tamiami Trail in the Big Cypress National ...