Alarm as Florida rushes to carry out ‘incredibly rare’ double execution

Florida is set to carry out its first double execution within a single day since the modern era of the US death penalty began in 1976, The Guardian reports. James Duckett, sixty-eight, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at noon on Tuesday at Florida State Prison near Starke, with Dominick Occhicone, eighty, facing the same fate six hours later, barring last-minute legal intervention. Rights groups have condemned the secrecy surrounding the executions, warning that the rushed timeline raises the risk of what they call torturous deaths.

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