Florida conducts first two-for-one execution in more than six decades

Florida executed two inmates on July 28—the state's first double execution in more than 60 years—killing James Duckett, 68, for the 1987 murder of 11-year-old Teresa McAbee, and Dominick Occhicone, 80, for the 1986 killings of his ex-fiancée’s parents. The executions underscore Gov. Ron DeSantis’s aggressive push to expand the death penalty, with Florida accounting for a large share of U.S. executions this year; critics say the moves are politically motivated and point to DNA issues in Duckett’s case while Occhicone’s victims’ family expressed relief and closure.