Florida prisoner, 74, set to be oldest inmate executed in state's modern history

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 penalty. Dennis Sochor is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Tuesday evening for the Jan. 1, 1982, killing of a woman he met at a New Year’s Eve party. Sochor would be the oldest Florida inmate executed in modern times, just a week older than Dusty Ray Spencer, the Florida inmate executed June 25. Florida is