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This combo from photos provided by Florida Department of Corrections shows from left, James Aren Duckett and Dominick Anthony Occhicone. Credit: AP/Uncredited STARKE, Fla. — A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida. Hours later, an 80-year-old man was set to become the second-oldest inmate executed in modern U.S. history. It has been nearly a decade since any state carried out two executions in one day, when Arkansas had back-to-back executions in 2017.
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Afterward, the girl's family members said they had suffered for decades. “I waited nearly 40 years to have him dead,” Dorthy Tula, the victim's mother, said before breaking down. “This man took advantage of his badge,” said Tracy Mcfall-Buskirk, the girl's cousin.
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This combo from photos provided by Florida Department of Corrections shows from left, James Aren Duckett and Dominick Anthony Occhicone. Credit: AP/Uncredited STARKE, Fla. — A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death 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 U.S. history. Tuesday marked the first time since two convicted murderers were executed on a single day — in Arkansas in 2017 — that a state has planned virtually back-to-back executions. It also comes 18 months after Republican Gov.
This combo from photos provided by Florida Department of Corrections shows from left, James Aren Duckett and Dominick Anthony Occhicone. Credit: AP/Uncredited STARKE, Fla. — A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death 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 U.S. history. It has been nearly a decade since any state carried out two executions in a one day, when Arkansas had back-to-back executions in 2017. Florida Republican Gov.
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This combo from photos provided by Florida Department of Corrections shows from left, James Aren Duckett and Dominick Anthony Occhicone. Credit: AP/Uncredited STARKE, Fla. — A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida. Hours later, an 80-year-old man was set to become the second-oldest inmate executed in modern U.S. history. It has been nearly a decade since any state carried out two executions in one day, when Arkansas had back-to-back executions in 2017.
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