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Florida Executes 74-Year-Old Dusty Ray Spencer

The state carried out a three-drug lethal injection despite defense claims that his advanced age and liver disease made the punishment cruel and unusual.

Oklahoma Executes Raymond Johnson for 2007 Murders of Ex-Girlfriend and Infant

Florida Executes Chadwick Willacy for 1990 Murder of Neighbor

Florida Executes Melvin Trotter for 1986 Killing After Supreme Court Denies Stay

Oklahoma Board Recommends Clemency for Death-Row Inmate Tremane Wood