Florida prepares to execute its oldest death row prisoner
- Dennis Sochor, a 74-year-old convicted murderer, is scheduled to be executed in Florida later this month, potentially becoming the oldest inmate ever executed by the state.
- Sochor has been on death row since the 1980s, following his 1987 conviction for the 1982 murder and kidnapping of Patricia Gifford, whose body was never found.
- He is one of three older inmates scheduled to die in Florida within a month, highlighting the nation’s aging death row population.
- Florida has already carried out nine executions this year, exceeding the combined total of all other U.S. states.
- Sochor’s recent appeals, which cited concerns over a withheld letter and the efficacy of execution drugs, were denied by the Florida Supreme Court, with a final appeal pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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