Florida executes a former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl. He is put to death Tuesday in the first of two lethal injections planned for the state in a single day, according to multiple reports. The execution comes as Florida’s death chamber schedules two executions closer together than in recent years, with outlets noting it is the first time in nearly a decade that a state carries out two executions in one day. One report cites Arkansas as the last state to do back-to-back executions in 2017.
Hours after the first execution, Florida is scheduled to carry out a second execution of an 80-year-old inmate. The Guardian describes the planned second execution as likely to make that man the second-oldest inmate executed in modern U.S. history. Another outlet frames the same sequence as the first of two executions set for a single day in Florida. The reports describe both executions as lethal injection procedures carried out under state death-penalty orders.
