- Florida carried out back-to-back executions in one day — the first was James Duckett, a former police officer convicted of raping and drowning an 11-year-old in 1987.
- An 80-year-old inmate, Dominick Occhicone, was scheduled as the second execution that day and would be one of the oldest people put to death in modern U.S. history.
- The state’s execution pace has surged under Gov. Ron DeSantis, with Florida accounting for a large share of U.S. executions in 2025, drawing criticism from death-penalty opponents.
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