Florida has become the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in one day, putting to death an ex-police officer convicted of murder and only the second octogenarian known to receive a lethal injection in modern U.S. history.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed the warrant for William Frances Silvia, who was convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife at her mother’s Casselberry-area home in 2006, according to our partners at the News Service of Florida.

The state of Florida is set to execute two death row inmates on the same day for the first time in more than 60 years, now that a stay has been lifted for a former police officer who had been scheduled to die earlier his year.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday evening signed a new death warrant for James Aren Duckett after the Florida Supreme Court lifted its stay of the former Mascotte police officer’s previously scheduled execution, according to our partners at News Service of Florida.

Florida is in the process of executing three of its oldest death row inmates back to back — each one older than the last.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man who killed his former girlfriend’s parents four decades ago.