New Delhi, July 18 -- TALLAHASSEE - Teresa McAbee was eleven years old. That fact sits at the center of everything that has happened since a summer day in 1987, when the girl's body was found near a lake in Lake County, Florida. Thirty-nine years later, her name will be invoked again on July 28, when Florida carries out what would be the first same-day double execution in the state since 1964.

James Duckett, 68, a former Mascotte police officer convicted of raping and killing McAbee, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at noon at Florida State Prison. Six hours later, Dominick Occhicone, 80 - the oldest person scheduled for execution in the modern era of American capital punishment - is set to die for the 1986 murders of his former g...