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Florida prisoner, 74, set to be oldest inmate executed in state’s modern history

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MIAMI — Florida was again preparing Tuesday to execute one of its oldest death row prisoners in history, a 74-year-old convicted murderer who is one of three older inmates set to die in the span of a month in the nation’s busiest death penalty state. Dennis Sochor, who has been on death row since the … Read more

Man convicted of fatally stabbing his wife set to be 9th person executed this year in Florida

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STARKE, Fla. — A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his wife decades ago is set to be executed Thursday evening. Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke for the 1992 stabbing death of his wife Karen. If carried out, this … Read more

Ex-Oklahoma inmate who was nearly executed 3 times has new murder trial set a month after being released

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A new murder trial is due to begin in September for Richard Glossip, the former Oklahoma inmate who spent decades on the state’s death row and was nearly executed three times before the Supreme Court overturned his conviction last year.  Glossip, 63, was granted bond in May and released from prison for the first time … Read more

Man executed for poisoning Chinese billionaire Netflix producer Lin Qi

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Chinese authorities have executed a man convicted of using poison to kill a billionaire gaming tycoon linked to the Netflix adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem” over a professional dispute, local media reported Tuesday. Xu Yao was found guilty of killing Lin Qi, the founder of the Shanghai-based Yoozoo Games, which holds the film adaptation rights for … Read more

Florida man executed for fatal stabbing of woman and her 4-year-old daughter

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A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter was put to death Thursday evening, becoming the seventh person executed by the state this year. Richard Knight, 47, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. Eastern Time following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. Knight was convicted … Read more