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Florida Executes 74-Year-Old Murderer | Tucson News
Florida executed 74-year-old Dennis Sochor Tuesday, marking another grim chapter in the state’s surge of lethal injections — including another 74-year-old executed last month and an 80-year-old scheduled for death later this month, making him the first octogenarian to face the death penalty in Florida. Sochor, convicted of murdering Patricia Gifford in 1982 after meeting her on New Year’s Eve, was given a three-drug lethal injection at 6:16 PM. Gifford’s sister, Marilyn, called the execution bittersweet — her sister’s body remains missing, and the family never got to properly bury her. Sochor…
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