Florida executes 74-year-old Dusty Ray Spencer for wife's murder
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Florida executed 74-year-old Dusty Ray Spencer on Thursday evening for the 1992 stabbing death of his wife, the state's ninth execution of 2026.
Spencer, who was convicted in 1993 of stabbing his wife, Karen, to death in their backyard in front of her son, is now the oldest person executed in Florida's history, Florida Today and WPBF reported.
"The sentence of the state of Florida v. Inmate Dusty R. Spencer was carried out at 6:10 p.m. EST," the Florida Department of Corrections said in a statement...
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