Florida puts ex-police officer to death for girl's murder, first of 2 executions set for single day

Florida executed James Aren Duckett, a former police officer convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl in 1987, marking the first of two planned executions on a single day. The second execution, of 80-year-old Dominick Anthony Occhicone convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 1986, was scheduled hours later, with Governor Ron DeSantis overseeing a record pace of executions in his final years in office.