TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday issued a temporary stay of next week’s scheduled execution of James Aren Duckett, a former police officer convicted of the rape and murder of an 11 ...

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The Florida Supreme Court issued an order Thursday afternoon staying the scheduled execution of James Aren Duckett, just five days before he was set to be put to death by lethal injection. Duckett, a ...

The current standard methodology in forensic DNA typing relies on amplification of short tandem repeat (STR) markers by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and allele sizes (i.e., length-based) ...

Attorneys for Florida death row inmate James Aren Duckett filed an emergency motion with the Florida Supreme Court late Wednesday, seeking to halt his execution scheduled for March 31. The 11th-hour ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday paused next week’s scheduled execution of James Duckett — a former Lake County police officer, who was convicted in 1988 of raping, choking and drowning an ...

When 11-year-old Teresa Mae McAbee was kidnapped, raped, strangled and drowned in the small Florida city of Mascotte nearly 40 years ago, a surprising suspect emerged: a rookie cop named James Duckett ...