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At 80 years old, Florida death row inmate Dominick Occhicone has a heap of health issues: heart trouble, poor kidney function, an enlarged prostate, arthritis, and degenerative disc disease, according ...

State kills Dominick Occhicone, 80, and James Duckett, 68, as Ron DeSantis pushes executions before term ends Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions ...

Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day, putting to death an 80-year-old man who was the second-oldest inmate known to receive a lethal ...

Both men had been convicted of murder in the 1980s. One had maintained his innocence, while the other became the second octogenarian to be put to death in the U.S. in the last 50 years. By Nicholas ...

James Duckett and Dominick Occhicone were both put to death Tuesday for separate murder cases from the 1980s. James Duckett, left, and Dominick Occhicone, right, are both scheduled to be executed ...

But the nationwide total last year nearly doubled compared to the year prior, with 11 states executing 47 inmates – 19 of whom were in Florida, DPIC data shows. And more than half of the executions ...

Florida has put to death two inmates in what's now the state's first double execution in more than 60 years amid an aggressive death penalty push by Gov. Ron DeSantis. James Duckett, a 68-year-old ...

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