Florida-Double Execution

Death penalty protester Abe Bonowitz, foreground, casts a livestream as a bell is tolled during a demonstration in front of the Lake County Courthouse in Tavares, Fla., Tuesday, July 28, 2026.

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Busiest US death chamber: Florida executes 2 men in a day, including an octogenarian

Busiest US death chamber: Florida executes 2 men in a day, including an octogenarian

Florida has become the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in one day, putting to death an ex-police officer convicted of murder and only the second octogenarian known to receive a lethal injection in modern U.S. history. Ex-police officer James Aren Duckett was pronounced dead after a three-drug injection Tuesday afternoon at Florida State Prison. He was convicted of the 1987 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Hours later, 80-year-old Dominick Anthony Occhicone was executed for the 1986 killing of his ex-girlfriend’s parents. Florida has now carried out 12 executions this year — more than all other states combined. In 2017, Arkansas executed two men in a single day.