Florida executes man in first of two lethal injections planned in single day
Summary
Florida carried out two executions in one day for the first time in nearly ten years. The first man executed was a former police officer convicted of raping and killing a young girl, and the second was an 80-year-old man convicted of murder.Key Facts
- Florida executed James Aren Duckett, 68, who was convicted of raping and drowning an 11-year-old girl in 1987.
- Duckett's execution was the first of two planned lethal injections in Florida on the same day.
- The second scheduled execution was of Dominick Anthony Occhicone, 80, who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 1986.
- This was the first time in nearly a decade that any U.S. state executed two people in one day.
- Florida has become the state with the highest number of executions in 2025, carrying out nearly half of the total executions in the country so far.
- Governor Ron DeSantis has overseen an increase in executions during his final term, with 19 executions in the previous year alone.
- Appeals to delay or stop the executions were denied by both the Florida Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Executions in Florida use a three-drug lethal injection method: a sedative, a paralytic, and a drug to stop the heart.
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