Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleConvicted murderer Dennis Sochor ( Florida Department of Corrections)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. In fullPrisoner set to be oldest inmate executed in Florida’s history after years on death rowMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

Florida is in the process of executing three of its oldest death row inmates back to back — each one older than the last.

The series of executions, due to be carried out by the end of this month, highlights the nation’s aging death-row population.

One of Florida's prisoners scheduled to die in July, a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents in 1986, is 80 years old and would be only the second known…

Uno de los confinados en fila tiene 80 años, lo que ha provocado una discusión sobre la edad y la pena capital en ese estado

Florida is set to execute a 74-year-old man, its oldest inmate in over a century, just weeks after executing another inmate who was then the oldest to receive the state's death…

Dennis Sochor has been on death row since the 1980s

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Dennis Sochor was convicted of killing a woman on Jan. 1, 1982, just hours after meeting her at a New Year’s Eve party.

Dennis Sochor enfrentará este martes la pena de muerte por el asesinato en 1981 de una joven cuyo cuerpo nunca apareció

Florida on Tuesday is set to execute a man convicted of murdering a woman at a 1982 New Year's Eve party then disposing of her remains.

74-year-old Florida man becomes oldest inmate executed in the state’s modern history

Dennis Sochor was executed by lethal injection for the 1982 murder of 18-year-old Patty Gifford, who was raped and strangled. Her body was never found.

Dennis Sochor, who was convicted of killing Patricia Gifford on Jan. 1, 1982, just hours after meeting her at a New Year’s Eve party, has become one of the oldest inmate to be…

Dennis Sochor’s execution is one of three older inmates scheduled within a month in Florida, the nation’s busiest death penalty state

Man who was 74 was one of three older prisoners scheduled for execution within the span of a month

Dennis Sochor, 74, declined a last meal and was executed for the 1982 murder of Patty Gifford, without ever revealing where he hid her body.

Dennis Sochor, 74, of Florida, was convicted of killing Patricia Gifford on January 1, 1982, just hours after meeting the 18-year-old woman at a New Year´s Eve party.

Dennis Sochor, aged 74, was executed by lethal injection in Florida. He was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Patricia Gifford in 1982. Sochor confessed to killing Gifford,…

Innerhalb weniger Wochen wurden in Florida zwei zum Tode verurteilte 74-Jährige hingerichtet. Bald soll erstmals in der Geschichte des US-Bundesstaats ein 80-jähriger…

The state of Florida is set to execute two death row inmates on the same day for the first time in more than 60 years, now that a stay has been lifted for a former police officer…