Governor Ron DeSantis has made the state\u2019s death chamber the nation\u2019s busiest at the end of his final term<\/p>\n
A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death on Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before an 80-year-old man was to become the second-oldest inmate executed in modern US history.<\/p>\n
It has been nearly a decade since any state carried out two executions in one day, when Arkansas had back-to-back executions in 2017.<\/p>\n
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