Florida is preparing to carry out two executions on Tuesday, becoming the first US state in nearly a decade to execute two inmates on the same day. If both lethal injections go ahead, it will also mark Florida's first same-day executions since 1964 and the first under the modern US death penalty era for the state.

Two Florida death row inmates are scheduled to be executed hours apart on Tuesday, which would mark the first time in more than six decades the state puts to death multiple people…

Florida is set to put two inmates to death hours apart, marking the first time since 2017 that a state has scheduled two executions in a single day.