Dusty Ray Spencer is executed in Florida after the Florida Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court denied his final appeals, making him the oldest inmate put to death in the state's modern history.He is pronounced dead at Florida State Prison after a three-drug lethal injection; his final words include an apology to Karen Spencer and a spiritual statement committing his spirit and soul.Spencer was convicted in 1992 of first-degree murder for the stabbing death of
Karen Spencer, was resentenced after trial irregularities, and another 74-year-old inmate,
Dennis Sochor, is scheduled for execution in July as Florida continues a high pace of executions under Governor
Ron DeSantis.