Florida has become the first state in nearly a decade to carry out a double execution on the same day with the lethal injections of an octogenarian — its oldest inmate to be put to death  — and an ex-cop who murdered a child while on duty.

Dominick Occhicone, 80, who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 1986, was the second death row inmate to be killed Tuesday with a three-drug injection. He was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. at Florida state prison near Starke.

“I know it don’t mean much, but I’m sorry,” Occhicone said when asked if he wanted to make a statement.

“I never meant to do what I did.”

He also thanked all of his Christian brothers for visiting him over the years.

Occhicone’s last meal was eggplant parmesan, salad, cornbread and soda, the Tallahassee Democrat reported, quoting Florida Department of Corrections spokesperson Jordan Kirkland.

Kirkland reportedly said Occhicone had no visitors prior to his execution, but spent time with a spiritual advisor.

He becomes the oldest death row inmate executed in Florida –– and the second oldest prisoner known to have been put to death in modern US history.

Just hours earlier, former police officer James Duckett, 68, died by lethal injection at 1.19 p.m. Tuesday for raping and drowning an 11-year-old girl in 1987.

The last state to hold back-to-back executions in one day was Arkansas in April 2017 and the last time two inmates were executed on the same day in Florida was in 1964.

Occhicone was the 12th inmate executed in Florida this year after the US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied his and Duckett’s appeals and requests for stays of execution.

Earlier this month, Dennis Sochor briefly became the eldest inmate executed in Florida when he was put to death aged 74 for killing a woman he met at a New Year’s Eve party in the first hours of 1982.

Another 74-year-old inmate, Dusty Ray Spencer — who was just one week younger than Sochor at time of execution — was put to death in June.

The oldest prisoner known to have been executed in US history is Walter Moody Jr., who was put to death aged 83 in Alabama in 2018.

Moody was convicted over a mail bomb campaign in 1989 that killed a federal judge and a civil rights attorney.

Occhicone spent nearly four decades on death row after being sentenced in the murders of Raymond and Martha Artzner at a home in Holiday, north of Clearwater, on June 10, 1986.

He had showed up to the property where his ex-girlfriend Anita Gerrety was living with her parents and two children. But after she refused to speak with him, he returned with a handgun, according to investigators.

Occhicone then cut the phone lines and shot the Artzners while Gerrety fled with her daughter.

He did not deny the shootings but his legal team argued at trial that the slayings were not premeditated.

Lawyers for Occhicone, who would have turned 81 next month, had argued that executing him was “cruel and unusual punishment” due to his age and condition, and therefore unconstitutional.

For his part, Duckett was the sole police officer on patrol duty in Mascotte, near Orlando, on the evening of May 11, 1987.

Witnesses said they saw his victim, Teresa McAbee, getting into his patrol car that evening and her mom reported her missing hours later.

Her body was found in a nearby lake the next morning, with DNA and hair collected from the girl’s body found to be probable matches to Duckett.

Fingerprints matching Duckett and the victim were found on his patrol car, according to investigators.

Duckett said “No sir” when asked if he wanted to make a final statement and about four minutes after the three-drug injection began, the prison warden shook him and shouted his name, receiving no response.

His attorney, Mary Elizabeth Wells, previously said that he had “consistently maintained his innocence” and blasted Florida’s handling of DNA evidence.

Duckett was a suspect in two other murders of a 22-year-old woman in 1986 and a 14-year-old girl in 1987, both in Polk County, according to the Lakeland Ledger. He was never charged in either of those cases.

Florida has now carried out nearly half the state executions in the US since the beginning of 2025.

With Post wires