Florida executes two inmates in one day for the first time in 62 years

In the U.S. state of Florida, two death row inmates were executed on the same day for the first time in 62 years. First, a former police officer was executed by lethal injection for the 1987 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Five hours later, an 80-year-old convict was executed for a double murder. He became the second oldest prisoner ever executed in the United States and the oldest whose death sentence was carried out in Florida.