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Florida executes first of two men in rare double execution on single day
Duckett was the 11th inmate executed in Florida this year as the state prepared a second lethal injection hours later.
- On Tuesday, July 28, 2026, Florida executed James Aren Duckett, 68, by lethal injection at Florida State Prison, pronouncing him dead at 1:19 p.m. as the first of two inmates scheduled for execution that day.
- This marked Florida's first double execution since 1964 after Gov. Ron DeSantis added Duckett to the execution date for Dominick Anthony Occhicone following the Florida Supreme Court's removal of a stay on July 8.
- Scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Occhicone faces execution for a 1986 murder, with critics arguing his age and ailments—including kidney and prostate problems—raise humanitarian concerns about the state's aggressive capital punishment strategy.
- Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty executive director Grace Hanna stated the governor is "increasingly treating executions as routine instruments of political power," citing political ambition ahead of the 2028 presidential election.
- According to USA TODAY analysis, Florida has carried out 46% of all U.S. executions since January 2025 under DeSantis. The state executed 71% of 24 inmates aged at least 62 since 2025, reflecting aggressive focus on aging death-row inmates.
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Former police officer James Duckett, 68, and Dominick Occhicone, 80, received lethal injection into Florida State Prison in Raiford
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On Tuesday, July 28, Florida became the first state in almost a decade to execute two death sentences on the same day. The executions concern a former police officer convicted of the murder of a child and an eighty-year-old convicted of double murder, who became the second oldest inmate executed in the recent history of the [...] The article Florida, executed two death sentences six hours apart: it is the first time since 2017 comes from Il Fatt…
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