Florida Executes Two Inmates In One DayFlorida completed a rare double execution on Tuesday, putting Dominick Anthony Occhicone to death about five hours after James Aren Duckett was pronounced dead. Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty described the twin executions as an “unprecedented escalation” of the state’s use of the death penalty. Occhicone and Duckett were put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison, bringing the number of inmates executed this year to 12. Attorney General James Uthmeier has pointed to the legal appeals process to defend the state’s use of the death penalty. In 1972, the court in Furman v. Georgia ruled that the way the death penalty was being applied was unconstitutional.