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https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/26/us/florida-executions-james-duckett-dominick-occhicone

>Two Florida death row inmates are scheduled to be executed hours apart on Tuesday, which would mark the first time in more than six decades the state puts to death multiple people within a single day, as state officials continue to ramp up executions.

This follows a previous story, where Jesus Christ, the son of a middle-eastern god, received the death penalty.

>“I’m not shocked anymore by the number of death warrants that are being signed, but it struck me as a kind of rupture to the system that we would execute two people within six hours from one another,” said Father Dustin Feddon, a Catholic priest who has been visiting prisoners on Florida’s death row for more than a decade.

>Feddon currently ministers to James Duckett, who is scheduled to be executed at noon on Tuesday. Duckett has spent more than three decades on death row after being convicted of murdering 11-year-old Teresa McAbee in 1987.

>Hours after Duckett’s death, the state plans to execute Dominick Occhicone, an 80-year-old man who would be the second octogenarian ever executed in the US death penalty’s modern era, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). He was convicted of double-murder in 1987 for killing his former girlfriend’s parents, Raymond and Martha Artzner.

>The scheduling of two executions – both via lethal injection – in one day comes as Florida has accelerated its pace of executions, even as other states have abolished or paused the practice. Under the administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida executed 19 death row inmates in 2025 – a record high, and more than double the state’s previous record in modern history, according to DPIC. It has already put 10 prisoners to death this year.
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>The recent increase concerns advocates in part because Florida leads the nation in death row exonerations, DPIC data shows: Since 1973, 30 people on Florida’s death row have been freed after serving time for a crime they didn’t commit.

>When asked about the schedule and increased pace of executions, a spokesperson for the governor pointed to comments he had previously made in which he expressed a belief the death penalty is an “appropriate punishment for the worst offenders” that could be a “strong deterrent.”

>“There’s victims’ families that are wanting to see justice, that I’m doing my part to deliver that,” he said in November 2025.

>CNN was unable to reach the families of Duckett’s and Occhicone’s victims for comment.

>Carrying out multiple executions within a day is rare in the modern era, with only two states doing so in the past 26 years: Arkansas in 2017 and Texas in 2000. Florida hasn’t executed more than one person in a single day since 1964, according to the state’s correctional records.

> Advocates say putting two men to death hours apart could put more stress on the execution process, increasing the risk of potential complications.

>“To add in that kind of pressure in Florida, where already there have been more executions in that one state alone than there have been in the rest of the US this year – it’s asking for more problems,” said Maya Foa, the CEO of Reprieve, an international nonprofit organization that opposes the death penalty.

>Both inmates have filed lawsuits seeking to halt their executions, including one that argues they could suffer so-called “botched” executions because of the compressed timeline. Those appeals remain pending.
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No God fearing Christian condones capital punishment.
Every day MAGA strays further from Christ.
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>>1525886
anon.... the crusades.....
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>>1525907
Thr Crusades ended with Constantinople burning under a Latin flag. A disaster for Christianity.
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>>1525886
Your own bible explicitly forbids you from passing judgement on other christians and how they worship.

There is no good evidence-based to believe you can continue to exist after the brain you are seated in dies, or that the universe was crafted by a magic entity who had to impregnate a virgin to come to earth to sacrifice itself to itself because its blood was the only blood with enough magic to allow itself to forgive us for breaking the rules it made up that it programmed us to like breaking.
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You know how a lot of people think they shoudl be broadcast or streamed, like a PPV event or some WWE thing? People say that all the time.

There is a reason that they aren't. The reason is that virtually everyone would turn against the death penalty if they were shown to the public. We love being ignorant about reality.
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>>1525910
That doesn't line up with human history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
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>>1525914
it does. the rulers have learned how to keep the mob entertained and pacified.
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>>1525910
you literally have 0 understanding of history its incredible, public executions were literally a form of entertainment as well as a deterrence against enemies of the state. The only people against public executions would be sympathizers of the executed aka other criminals. If a couple of Antifa terrorists were publicly executed you wouldn't see anyone care, the other half would use it as a joke the same way the antifa cunts use kirk's death as a joke.
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>>1525864
>Executing an eighty year old man
Fucks sake this is just an exercise in government waste and an obsession with holding power over people's lives.
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>>1525909
>Your own bible explicitly forbids you from passing judgement on other christians and how they worship.

judgment is mine saith the Lord
Now, since I am a god-fearing capitalist Christian, and you are a dirty atheist communist, The Lord doth speaketh through me and Satan through you.

We gonna fry those murderers, then we gonna start you commies!
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>>1525924
Public executions didn't deter fucking shit.
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>>1525956
You're joking, right?
>Kill someone horrifically
>get a paid room for 40 years
>Finally get killed in your 80s
For prostitute strangling psychopaths like esl shill, this is basically an advertisement to murder people
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>>1525956
How do you know? Have you been publicly executed?
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>>1525957
>>1525978
The fact that people kept committing crimes on a large scale in the days of public execution tells me that the deterrence wasn't effective.
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>>1525999
How many have you seen?
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>>1525956
>Not understanding that the purpose is to provide safety to actual people, not to deter criminals
If you kill someone then they are dead, and no amount of moralizing, money or political clout is going to put them back together, dead is dead. This ensures that this specific person who has been killed can never again harm the community or the people in it. No, it doesn't end crime forever and its not meant to, there will always be crime, the best you can do is deprive criminals of their basic rights and execute them, which depletes the supply of criminal intent by one (1) person. But that's better than just allowing the shitskins to live.
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>>1525999
These retards are defending a criminal 'justice' system that predates habeas corpus. They aren't saying the quiet part ot loud, that you could be sentenced to be publicly punished or executed based on no evidence to appease a mob's bloodthirst; which is extremely fitting and consistent with what they believe today, come to think of it.
>>1526003
Cr8mals do have rights you fucking dipshit, that's literally one of the pillars seperating the western world from the shitskins you're raving about. If your skin really is white and you believe in eugenics, then you are an inferior specimen, kill yourself so you don't further dilute our gene pool.
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>>1526002
You don't need to personally witness something to know it's bad you fucking moron.
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>>1526003
You sound unhinged.
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>>1526012
>Cr8mals do have rights you fucking dipshit
Remember that time a Ukrainian woman got stabbed in the neck because some schizophrenic black guy was released back into society twelve times? And then he was determined to be mentally unfit to stand trial by a black judge, so he didn't receive any real punishment?
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>>1525909
>forbids you from passing judgement on other christians
Actually that's incorrect. Christians are explicitly instructed in the Bible to judge their fellow believers, but to NOT judge those outside the church.

>For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
1 Corinthians 5:12-13

Capital punishment is, and has long been, a contentious issue within Christianity. There are multiple examples of God condoning and ordering executions within the Old Testament. Jesus, however, has nothing recorded explicitly condoning capital punishment. The most common moderate interpretation of this is that God is therefore the only one with the authority to command capital punishment, which fits with what Jesus says in a story where people were about to execute an adulterous woman:
>And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Only God/Jesus would be "without sin" and allowed to throw the stone.

The way that shakes out is that some Christians find it necessary for the state to kill people and some Christians contend that no human government should have that right. Both are scripturally-supported positions. This is why you have very deeply devout Christian groups who advocate for completely opposite positions on this topic, and it really comes down more to a political party alignment than anything else, as it can be leveraged as a wedge issue to great effect. People love justice and they love mercy, so either one can be used to win an election. Florida just happens to be run by people using the justice angle for now.
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>>1526049
The shill story created by Republicunts and clumsily pushed?
The one that MIGA retards cheered on?

We're pretty familiar with red state failures being blamed on Democrats
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>>1526055
>created
In what way?
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>>1526055
Iryna actually died. This story wasn't manufactured
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Make lynching great again.
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>>1526062
>This story wasn't manufactured
t. glowie
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>>1525864
Why, whenever I hear about executions, it's always white criminals who get them?



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