Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day, putting to death an 80-year-old man who was the second-oldest inmate known to receive a lethal injection in modern US history, according to state officials and news reports.
Hours earlier, the state executed another inmate, whose identity and crime details were not immediately confirmed by all sources. The last time a US state executed two people on the same day was in 2014, when Texas performed two executions.
The 80-year-old inmate, whose name was not provided in the source article, was convicted of murder and had been on death row for decades. His age made him the second-oldest inmate executed in the US since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, after Walter Moody Jr., who was 83 when executed in Alabama in 2018.
Florida has carried out 99 executions since 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The state resumed executions in 2023 after a pause during the COVID-19 pandemic.
