{"id":355087,"date":"2026-07-28T17:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355087\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:03:07","slug":"florida-executes-two-inmates-on-same-day-including-man-who-would-be-oldest-in-states-modern-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355087\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida executes two inmates on same day, including man who would be oldest in state\u2019s modern era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">STARKE, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Florida State Prison is carrying out two executions Tuesday, beginning with a man convicted of killing an 11-year-old girl nearly four decades ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">James Ducket, 68, was scheduled to be executed at noon. He was convicted in the 1987 murder of an 11-year-old girl in Lake County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/07\/15\/florida-schedules-rare-double-execution-july-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/07\/15\/florida-schedules-rare-double-execution-july-28\/\">Florida schedules rare double execution on July 28<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Six hours later, Dominic Akikani, 80, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Akikani was convicted of killing his former girlfriend\u2019s parents in Pasco County more than 40 years ago. If carried out, he would become the oldest person executed in Florida\u2019s modern era.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STARKE, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Florida State Prison is carrying out two executions Tuesday, beginning with a man convicted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[144961,28,144962,79245,30,29,79246,144960],"class_list":["post-355087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-dominic-akikani-oldest-executed-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-double-execution","tag-florida-execution-2026","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-state-prison-lethal-injection","tag-james-ducket-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}