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DEVELOPING: Court Stops Florida Execution Scheduled In Days As We Await Results From New DNA Testing

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3.5697 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The clock is ticking in Florida after the state Supreme Court voted to pause the execution of former police officer, James Aren Duckett. Duckett was convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-girl back in 1987. After nearly 40 years on death row, Duckett’s attorneys say the new testing could exonerate the client and the court gave prosecutors until 5 pm today to give a status update on results from the new DNA testing.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:06.0

Hey there, folks.

0:07.0

It is Friday, March 27th, and here's something you don't hear every day out of Florida.

0:12.5

They have granted a stay of execution for a death row inmate.

0:17.7

But the case gets more interesting because the clock is still ticking on that execution.

0:26.6

Robes help us with this. Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. This is a scheduled execution

0:32.7

for next week. It could or could not go through robes based on some DNA testing that is pending.

0:41.4

This is a hell of a high-stakes case right now.

0:43.5

It certainly is.

0:44.6

And all eyes are on the state of Florida.

0:46.9

This is almost unheard of.

0:48.2

That's why it's, first of all, it's very, very rare that the Supreme Court would step in and stay this execution pending further

0:56.9

order first place. But it's even a bigger deal that it's happening in the state of Florida,

1:01.4

because this was a heinous crime, a former police officer convicted of raping and murdering

1:08.7

an 11-year-old girl. We're talking about James Aaron Duckett.

1:14.2

Yeah.

1:14.9

Look, Florida, we've done a lot of executions

1:17.2

and not like execution stories out of Florida.

1:19.6

And just for that context, Robs,

1:22.1

it's given how DeSantis is signing death warrants left and right

1:25.7

to hear that one has been halted days before

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