Florida executes man in first of two lethal injections planned in single day

Governor Ron DeSantis has made the state’s death chamber the nation’s busiest at the end of his final term A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death on Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before an 80-year-old man

Florida carries out first of 2 executions planned in a single day, putting ex-police officer to death for girl’s killing

Florida is set to become the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day, planning lethal injections Tuesday for an ex-police officer convicted of a young girl’s murder and an octogenarian who would be the second-oldest inmate put to death in modern U.S. history.

Second octogenarian in modern US history faces lethal injection as Florida set to execute 2 in a day  AP News

James Aren Duckett, 68, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at noon, followed later that day by 80-year-old Dominick Anthony Occhicone