Florida Executes Oldest Death Row Inmates | Miami News

Florida is set to execute Dennis Sochor, 74, making him the oldest person ever put to death in the state — just weeks after another 74-year-old, Dusty Ray Spencer, became the oldest executed by lethal injection. With nine executions already this year — more than any other state — Florida is preparing to carry out another for an 80-year-old, the first octogenarian ever executed there. Sochor, convicted in 1982 for the disappearance of Patricia Gifford after she rejected his advances, remains on death row since the 1980s, with a pending U.S. Supreme Court appeal. His case, alongside Spencer’s, highlights a troubling trend: aging inmates on death row across the U.S., with Florida’s governor wielding unprecedented control over execution scheduling. The nation’s oldest recently executed inmate was 83-year-old Walter Leroy Moody Jr. in Alabama in 2018. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/d01b3c30f2332fda