Governor Ron DeSantis has made the state’s death chamber the nation’s busiest at the end of his final term
A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death on Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before an 80-year-old man was to become the second-oldest inmate executed in modern US history.
It has been nearly a decade since any state carried out two executions in one day, when Arkansas had back-to-back executions in 2017.
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