The death-row inmate, convicted of rape and murder in 1987 in Mascotte, believes a reconsideration of DNA evidence may ...

The Florida Supreme Court issued a ruling on Thursday allowing further DNA testing, continuing the stay of James Duckett's execution.

The Florida Supreme Court has ordered additional DNA analysis in the decades-old death penalty case of James Duckett, which could delay his execution further and raise questions about his conviction.

The Florida Supreme Court has halted the scheduled execution of James Duckett, a former Florida police officer who was charged in 1988 with raping and killing an 11-year-old girl. Duckett's execution ...

James Duckett, who says he is innocent, came close to being executed last month amid arguments over DNA test results.

A day after death row inmate James Duckett had been set for execution, a Lake County circuit judge on April 1 denied access to underlying DNA data generated in a recent test, which proved inconclusive ...

MASCOTTE, Fla. - Update (3/26): The Florida Supreme Court issued a rare stay of execution on Thursday in James Duckett's case, pending the DNA testing results. The Court also ordered that those ...

STARK, Fla. — The State Supreme Court has ordered DNA re-testing in the case of James Duckett, who was sentenced to death for the 1987 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Lake County. This ...

From the start, there have been doubts about whether former Mascotte police officer James Duckett was really guilty in the 1987 murder of 11-year-old Teresa McAbee. In the decades since his conviction ...