Florida Carries Out First of Two Scheduled Executions in a Single Day
Florida executed one man by lethal injection and planned a second execution for the same day, marking a rare instance of two executions scheduled within hours of each other in the state.
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Florida Executes One Man, and Plans a 2nd Execution Tonight
Both were set to be carried out by lethal injection.
By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
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Governor Ron DeSantis has made the state’s death chamber the nation’s busiest at the end of his final term A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death on Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before an 80-year-old man was to become the second-oldest inmate executed in modern US history. It has been nearly a decade since any state carried out two executions in one day, when Arkansas had back-...
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