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, whose body was never recovered by authorities. He received the death penalty in 1987 after years of legal appeals. Sochor became Florida's tenth execution of the current year.

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