James Duckett, the former police officer convicted of raping and murdering 11-year-old Teresa McAbee, was slated to be executed March 31 until the Florida Supreme Court granted him a stay.

Former Mascotte police officer James Duckett is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection March 31.

Attorneys for the state of Florida say the execution of a man with Parkinson’s symptoms should not be delayed.

A man who killed two women he met a day apart at north Florida bars in 1996 has been executed.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt the planned execution of Michael Duane Zack, setting the stage for him to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Florida State Prison.

Florida carried out its first execution in three-and-a-half years on Thursday, executing 59-year-old Donald Dillbeck, who has spent decades on death row.

Mitchell was the first Native American sentenced to death since the resumption of the federal death penalty in 1994 and the only Native American awaiting his punishment. (Courtesy Auska Mitchell via AP)WASHINGTON The only Native American man on federal death row is asking a judge to halt his execution until he receives a determination to his clemency petition from the Justice Department and President Donald Trump. Mitchell submitted a clemency petition to the Justice Department after his execution was scheduled earlier this summer. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mitchell was the first Native American sentenced to death since the resumption of the federal death penalty in 1994 and the only Native American currently awaiting execution.

A federal judge in Indiana on Friday halted the first federal execution planned in 17 years scheduled three days from now over COVID-19 concerns. Daniel Lee had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Monday. The injunction delays the execution until there is no longer such an emergency. Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, was convicted in Arkansas of the 1996 killings of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell. The relatives of the victims had pleaded for years that Lee instead should receive the same life sentence as the ringleader in the deadly scheme.