The Independent
UK · 8 mins ago
Prisoner set to be oldest inmate executed in Florida’s history after years on death row
Florida is getting ready to execute one of its oldest death row prisoners in history.Dennis Sochor, who has been on death row since the 1980s, would become the oldest inmate Florida has executed in history. Later this month.The 74-year-old convicted murderer is one of three older inmates set to die in the span of a month in the nation’s busiest death penalty state. Sochor is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was convicted of killing a woman on Jan. 1, 1982, just hours after meeting her at a New Year’s Eve party.Florida is also set to execute an 80-year-old prisoner who would be the state’s first octogenarian to receive the death penalty.The executions highlight the nation’s aging death row population and the busy death ro
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