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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…