{"id":85076,"date":"2026-08-01T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85076"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:41:07","slug":"80-year-old-executed-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/80-year-old-executed-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"80-Year-Old Executed In Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/florida-execution-duckett-occhicone-d9bbb823a386a60724eadf3ebac359f1\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">two executions in a single day<\/a><\/span>, the last an 80-year-old man who was the second-oldest inmate known to receive a lethal injection in modern U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Hours earlier, the state executed a former police officer convicted of killing a young girl.\u00a0Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has made Florida\u2019s death chamber the nation\u2019s busiest at the end of his final term, saying too many families have waited too long to see justice. The lethal injections several hours apart were the first nearly back-to-back executions since Arkansas put two men to death\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/f5105c1f0d4e4accab1130e0fe4d7ef3\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">three hours apart<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out\u00a0two executions in a single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85077,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85076\/revisions\/85077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}