Florida is set to do something Tuesday that it hasn’t done in 60 years – put two people to death in one day.<\/p>\n
James Duckett, 68, is a former Mascotte police officer convicted of raping and killing 11-year-old Teresa McAbee in 1987. Dominick Occhicone, 80, killed his former girlfriend’s parents in Pasco County in 1980.<\/p>\n
Both are scheduled to die by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison in Starke; Duckett at noon, and Occhicone at 6 p.m. Duckett’s motion for a stay of execution was denied Friday.<\/p>\n
At 80, Occhicone is set to be the oldest inmate executed in Florida since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.<\/p>\n
The state executed 74-year-old Dennis Sochor on July 14. He killed Patricia Gifford on Jan. 1, 1982, just hours after meeting the 18-year-old woman at a New Year’s Eve party.<\/p>\n
Dusty Ray Spencer, also 74, was executed by the state June 25 for stabbing his wife Kathy to death in Orange County in 1992.<\/p>\n
Florida has executed 10 inmates this year following 19 in 2025 which is a state record.<\/p>\n
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