Supreme Court denies stays for two Florida death row inmates, clearing path for rare double execution

The U.S. Supreme Court denied stays for 2 Florida decease enactment inmates scheduled to beryllium executed Tuesday, clearing the mode for the authorities to execute the eleventh and twelfth inmates this year.

The tribunal denied 2 abstracted requests for stays successful the planned executions.

Former constabulary serviceman James Duckett, 68, had been scheduled to dice astatine noon connected Tuesday, but the Supreme Court's enactment pushed the execution back.

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Duckett, according to section media reports, was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dormant astatine 1:19 p.m.

Mugshot of James Duckett (Florida Department of Corrections)

Duckett was convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old miss successful 1987.

The Supreme Court besides denied a abstracted enactment for Dominick Occhicone, an 80-year-old who was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents successful 1986.

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Occhicone's execution is scheduled for 6 p.m. If executed, helium would go the oldest inmate executed successful Florida.

Mugshot of Dominick Occhicone. (Florida Department of Corrections)

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If carried out, Occhicone's execution would people the archetypal clip Florida executed 2 inmates successful 1 time since 1964. It would beryllium the conscionable the 2nd treble execution successful the U.S. successful the 2000s and the archetypal since Arkansas executed 2 inmates successful 2007.

Clouds hover implicit the entranceway of the Florida State Prison successful Starke, Fla., Aug. 3, 2023. (AP)

Florida executed 19 inmates successful 2025, according to a Fox News Digital reappraisal of Florida Department of Corrections data. The 11 radical the authorities has executed truthful acold this twelvemonth are much than treble the adjacent closest state, with Texas having executed 4 inmates this year, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.