Rights groups condemn secrecy surrounding killings and say hurry to execute raises chance of ‘torturous’ deaths

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.

  • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zipBanned from community
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    13 days ago

    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.