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

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

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 ...

DNA testing in the James Duckett murder case has come back inconclusive, according to Florida’s attorney general, and he is requesting that Duckett’s execution move forward. The Florida’s Supreme ...

James Duckett and Teresa McAbee (Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Supreme Court is demanding that DNA ...

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 ...

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 ...

Florida's Supreme Court must decide if convicted killer James Duckett gets more DNA analysis after an 'inconclusive' test.

TALLAHASSEE — James Aren Duckett, a former police officer convicted of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1987, will be executed by lethal injection later this month after Gov. Ron DeSantis ...