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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected emergency stay requests for two condemned Florida inmates set for execution Tuesday, removing legal obstacles to what would be a rare dual execution in the state. The rejections open the path for Florida to carry out its eleventh and twelfth executions of the year.
James Duckett, 68, a former police officer, was the first to face execution. Originally scheduled for noon Tuesday, Duckett was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 1:19 p.m. He had been convicted in 1987 of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.
Dominick Occhicone, 80, faces execution at 6 p.m. the same day. Occhicone was convicted in 1986 of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents. If executed, he would become the oldest inmate ever put to death in Florida.
The dual execution would mark Florida’s first same-day execution of two inmates since 1964. Nationally, it would be only the second double execution in the United States during the 2000s and the first since Arkansas executed two inmates in 2007.
Florida has executed 19 inmates through 2025, dramatically outpacing other states. Texas, which ranks second, has executed four inmates this year, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
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