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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.
These days we have to worry about the state executions that are instantaneous and arbitrary. It’s harder to get worked up over people who’ve had 40 years of due process.
Pigs have executed 638 people so far in 2026 https://mappingpoliceviolence.us/ They subtract about 3 people from the census every day.
Opposition to the death penalty isn’t always based on sympathy for heinous criminals. It’s based on the fact that people get exonerated fairly frequently. The judicial system is far from perfect and innocent people do get convicted.
That’s my reason for opposing it. I don’t think we should accept the occasional execution of an innocent person just to satisfy some abstract sense of justice. It’s almost like a modern practice of human sacrifice to some imagined “justice god”.
I also don’t think another situation being worse means somehow excuses other bad practices.