Entries tagged with “James Duckett”

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Aug 25, 2026

Florida’s Outlier Status: Thirteen of the Nation’s Twenty-Three Executions in 2026, Even as Executions Elsewhere Decline

Florida exe­cut­ed William Silvia on August 18, 2026, the state’s 13th exe­cu­tion of the year and the 23rd nation­al­ly. Florida has now car­ried out 57 per­cent of this year’s exe­cu­tions in the United States and 32 of the 70 car­ried out nation­wide since January 2025. The total builds on 2025, when Florida exe­cut­ed 19 peo­ple, the most in any year since the state rein­stat­ed cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in 1976 and more than dou­ble its pre­vi­ous mod­ern record of eight. Removing Florida…

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Jul 20, 2026

Florida Sets Two Executions for the Same Day, Ignoring Serious Concerns About the Innocence of One Man and Elderly Status of the Second Man

On July 14, 2026, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the resched­ul­ing of James Duckett’s exe­cu­tion for July 28 — the same day the state is set to car­ry out the exe­cu­tion of Dominick Occhicone. If both exe­cu­tions go for­ward, it would be the first time in the mod­ern era of the death penal­ty that Florida has car­ried out two exe­cu­tions in one day, and make Mr. Occhicone the old­est per­son exe­cut­ed in Florida’s mod­ern his­to­ry, break­ing the record set by Dennis Sochor’s…

Apr 03, 2026

James Duckett’s Warrant Will Expire Without His Execution as Florida Supreme Court Issues New Briefing on Request to Analyze DNA Evidence

On April 2, 2026, the Florida Supreme Court ordered new brief­ing that will extend past the war­rant dead­line for James Duckett’s exe­cu­tion. The order was issued in con­nec­tion with defense counsel’s request for fur­ther analy­sis of DNA evi­dence in Mr. Duckett’s case. Counsel for Mr. Duckett released a state­ment fol­low­ing the Court’s order, not­ing they​“are relieved that the court has inter­vened to halt this exe­cu­tion and allow time to con­sid­er Mr. Duckett’s request for the…