Florida Catholic Bishops Urge DeSantis to Stay Two Executions Set for July 28

Florida bishops petition governor to stay two executions set for same day

In a letter signed by the Executive Director of the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Bishops urge the state’s governor Ron DeSantis to stay the executions of two men, stressing that their crimes “are gravely evil”, yet “it is possible both to uphold justice and to exercise mercy.” Read all  

Florida Catholic bishops urge DeSantis to stay two executions set for July 28

(OSV News) — The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops on July 21 urged Gov. Ron DeSantis to stay two executions scheduled for July 28. James Duckett was convicted for the 1987 rape and murder of 11-year-old Teresa McAbee. Dominick Occhicone Jr. was convicted for the 1986 murder of Martha Artzner. Occhicone also received a life sentence for the murder of Raymond Artzner. Duckett’s previous scheduled execution was stayed by the Florida Supreme C…

Florida Sets Two Executions for the Same Day, Ignoring Serious Concerns About the Innocence of One Man and Elderly Status of the Second Man

On July 14, 2026, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the resched­ul­ing of James Duckett’s exe­cu­tion for July 28 — the same day the state is set to car­ry out the exe­cu­tion of Dominick Occhicone. If both exe­cu­tions go for­ward, it would be the first time in the mod­ern era of the death penal­ty that Florida has car­ried out two exe­cu­tions in one day, and make Mr. Occhicone the old­est per­son exe­cut­ed in Florida’s mod­ern his­to­r…

Florida Just Scheduled Two Executions on the Same Day for the First Time Since 1964

An 11-year-old girl walked to a convenience store to buy a pencil and never came home. That was 1987 – and the cop who put her in his patrol car, r**ed her, and drowned her in a nearby lake has been sitting on death row ever since. Now Florida is done waiting with two executions...

2 executions scheduled for same day in Florida for the first time in more than 60 years

The state of Florida is set to execute two death row inmates on the same day for the first time in more than 60 years, now that a stay has been lifted for a former police officer who had been scheduled to die earlier this year for killing an 11-year-old girl in 1987.