Posted on 07/28/2026 8:53:48 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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.
“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.
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If I had my way if feasible I’d have the execution match the method of killing used by the perp but of course that might cruel and unusual.
If they had executed the 80-year-old man, say, after his conviction in 1987, they would have executed a 41-year-old man.
yes, people think prison is confinement to a cell 23 hours a day. at USP Leavenworth most inmates leave their cells for breakfast at 6 am and don’t have to return to it until 4pm count, then they don’t have to return to the cell until 9:30 pm. the work in the UNICOR factories, food service, rec jobs, cleaning and facilities. after 4 they go to rec, weights, music art classes, education degree work, most prison are just a small city within walls, not punishments.
“Oftentimes I’ll think, ‘Why are we as a state still choosing to answer violence by killing people?’” the priest said. “And yet at the same time, I’m able to draw on some degree of consolation, trusting that the God who is infinitely merciful is present to James and to myself.”
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Horrible theology. Read Romans 13 you moron.
The state of Florida should not allow so-called ministers access to their prisons, who do not believe in the death penalty. It is an abomination, as God himself ordained the death penalty. It is upheld in the New Testament.
You can go back to the OT and see how God uses severe judgment (death on a massive scale) to bring people to their senses, to repent and come back to Him.
this made my day. fry em
(One is an 80 year old man)
( He wasn’t close to 80 when he was convicted...)
Agree!
Lights out.
“On top of Old Sparky....”
And they still slaughter Christians, in that fashion and extralegally. The problem in Africa is... islamofascists aided by Belt and Road Chi-Coms for cobalt and other minerals.
China knows it can handle the cult of Islam like the uigers in camp when the time comes.
Yes, true, and most will not recall that the US CDC investigators for the next years influenza sampling (to make a flu vaccine) discovered a PLA deserter from the Uigher camp in Mongolia, who was infected with SARS-Covid. It was tested on Uighers, and they killed (from data reported from NOAA weather satellites detecting huge smoke plumes of sulphur-dioxide, dead burned at 65K.
This based on the smoke plumes from millions of muslim Bangladeshis years prior, whose bodies were burned— and our satellites recorded the chemical content and the volume of smoke which went up many miles into the atmosphere.
Nice Chi-Coms (Han Dynasty), real SOBs and, they know that we know. And that Taiwan confirmed it thru their networks. Covid was intended for Taiwan pre-invasion. Fauci helped the bastard do the insertion genetics to make this quite deadly to Asians, especially.
and I remember the mobile crematory units handling the huge number of deaths during the Sars outbreaks in the cities, no reported numbers while welding apartment building doors shut.
He should have been dead by 1988.
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