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Man Convicted of Fatally Stabbing His Wife Set to Be Ninth Person Executed This Year in Florida
Court records say Spencer threatened to finish what he started before killing his wife, and Florida says the 74-year-old should die by lethal injection.
- Florida is set to execute Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at Florida State Prison for the 1992 stabbing death of his wife, Karen Spencer.
- Spencer's history of domestic violence included a December 1991 arrest for choking Karen; despite threatening to "finish what I started" from jail, he was released on $5,000 bail before the fatal attack.
- On January 18, 1992, Spencer broke into the home and attacked Karen in front of her 17-year-old son; prosecutors argued he "didn't just go there to kill her" but intended to make her suffer.
- While the Florida Attorney General's Office describes the execution as "long-deserved," Spencer's attorneys challenged the method and argued he should be spared at 74 as a "sick old man."
- Karen Spencer's murder brought national attention to domestic violence in Orange County, prompting legal reforms that increased arrests and prosecutions for domestic abuse cases by 80 percent in subsequent years.
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Man convicted of fatally stabbing his wife set to be 9th person executed this year in Florida
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his wife decades ago is set to be executed Thursday evening.
·Winnipeg, Canada
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