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Rights groups condemn secrecy surrounding killings and say hurry to execute raises chance of ‘torturous’ deaths
Florida is preparing on Tuesday to carry out the state’s first double execution within a single day since the start of the modern era of the US death penalty in 1976.
Barring last-minute legal intervention, James Duckett, 68, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at noon on Tuesday at Florida state prison near Starke. Six hours later, Dominick Occhicone, 80, faces the same fate.
Should both killings be completed, it would be the first time since 2017 that a death penalty state has conducted more than one execution on the same day. On 24 April 2017 Arkansas administered lethal doses to two prisoners, Jack Jones and Marcel Williams, just three hours apart and amid chaotic scenes that suggested the procedures were botched.
In Florida itself, a review by the Associated Press showed that 1964 was the last time there were multiple judicial killing on a single day.
I’ll bite …… I don’t pick up on social clues very well. What is the objection to posting the crimes?
Edited above to clarify. Slothrop wasn’t really feeling fuzzy and warm at the thought of executing the elderly, I wasn’t genuinely goose stepping to polish a flag, and reading the charges against a person doesn’t really tell you anything. See: People charged as terrorists for spray painting signs or moving a box of magazines.
Raping and killing a child with evidence of their dead strangled body seems hard to misinterpret, though.
I do understand what you mean about bogus charges like the people who got charged with terrorism for using signal but this is very different.
I’ve known enough people who spent years in prison for things they genuinely didn’t do that unless I actually know all of the relevant details of a case and situation far beyond what can be found in a quick Google search I’m not going to sit on the internet and judge a person. Oddly enough I knew a man who was exonerated after around 15 years in prison for killing his own kid.
It’s really easy to read of an awful crime and judge the person accused of it as a monster.
This guy was seen luring the kid in his police car and they found his pubic hair on her dead body and hers and his fingerprints on the hood of his car.
I do feel you on people getting convicted for bullshit that isn’t true though. There was a man I read about in I think saint Louis that was proven innocent with DNA and even the mayor of saint Louis tried freeing him and they wouldn’t do it they killed him anyway.
They didn’t want to dip into the treasury to pay the insane lawsuit that was going to happen when they freed him is suspect. Which is why I’m usually against the death penalty.