Florida inmates' last meals revealed after double-execution

Key Points:

• Florida carried out a rare double execution on Tuesday, executing James Duckett, 68, and Dominick Occhicone, 80, within five hours of each other by lethal injection at the state prison near Starke.
• Duckett, a former police officer convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl in 1987, requested eggs, grits, bacon, biscuits, and chocolate milk for his last meal, while Occhicone, convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 1986, requested eggplant parmesan, salad, garlic bread, and a Pepsi.
• Occhicone became Florida’s oldest executed prisoner in modern history and the second oldest in the US, with his legal team arguing his age made execution cruel and unusual punishment, but the Supreme Court denied appeals for both inmates.
• Duckett maintained his innocence until the end, with his attorney criticizing the handling of DNA evidence, while victims’ families expressed relief after decades of pain.
• Florida has conducted nearly half of the US executions in 2025, with this being the first double execution in the state since 1964 and the first back-to-back executions in the US since Arkansas in 2017.