On July 28, two inmates are scheduled to be executed at a state prison in Florida. According to the Associated Press, Florida has not carried out two executions on the same day in more than 60 years.
The first to be put to death will be 68-year-old James Duckett, a former police officer sentenced to death for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1987. The second will be 80-year-old Dominic Occhicone, who killed his girlfriend’s parents in 1986. Occhicone will become the oldest person executed in the state’s history and the second oldest in the United States overall. The only individual older than him was 83-year-old Walter Moody Jr., who was executed in Alabama in 2018 for the murder of a federal judge. Duckett and Occhicone will be the 11th and 12th inmates executed in Florida since the beginning of the year. The last time two inmates were executed on the same day in this prison was on May 12, 1964, when Emmett Blake and C. Dawson were put to death for murder.
In 2025, Florida has seen a record number of executions—19—since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1976. As the Associated Press notes, executions in the state are currently carried out by lethal injection.
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