{"id":285650,"date":"2026-05-27T03:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285650\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:39:08","slug":"florida-governor-signs-death-warrant-for-dusty-ray-spencer-whose-case-reshaped-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285650\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida governor signs death warrant for Dusty Ray Spencer, whose case reshaped law"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMONTHS IN THE ORANGE COUNTY JAIL. JUST A WEEK AFTER PERFORMING AT ROLLING LOUD, THE MAN AT THE CENTER OF A CASE THAT CHANGED THE WAY LAW ENFORCEMENT HANDLES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES IS NOW FACING EXECUTION. UNDER ORDER BY THE GOVERNOR. 74 YEAR OLD DUSTY RAY SPENCER WILL BE PUT TO DEATH. JUNE 25TH. SPENCER WAS SENT TO DEATH ROW FOR THE 1992 MURDER OF HIS WIFE, KAREN. BEFORE THE ATTACK, SPENCER HAD BEEN JAILED BRIEFLY IN A PRIOR BEATING INCIDENT. HE CALLED HIS WIFE FROM JAIL AND TOLD HER HE WOULD KILL HER. AND DESPITE HAVING THAT KNOWLEDGE, LAW ENFORCEMENT DID NOT ACT TO PREVENT THE SECOND ATTACK.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Florida governor signs death warrant for Dusty Ray Spencer, whose case reshaped law<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 11:12 PM EDT May 26, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDusty Ray Spencer, now a 74-year-old man whose crimes prompted lawmakers to create tougher laws on domestic violence, is scheduled to be executed in June. Spencer was sent to death row for the 1992 murder of his wife, Karen. Before the attack, Spencer had been briefly jailed, accused of domestic battery against his wife. While in jail, Spencer called his wife and told her he would kill her. Despite having that knowledge, law enforcement did not act to prevent the second attack. Lawmakers used Spencer\u2019s case as a springboard to create new and tougher domestic violence laws. Under an order from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Spencer is scheduled to be executed on June 25.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Dusty Ray Spencer, now a 74-year-old man whose crimes prompted lawmakers to create tougher laws on domestic violence, is scheduled to be executed in June. <\/p>\n

Spencer was sent to death row for the 1992 murder of his wife, Karen. <\/p>\n

Before the attack, Spencer had been briefly jailed, accused of domestic battery against his wife. While in jail, Spencer called his wife and told her he would kill her. Despite having that knowledge, law enforcement did not act to prevent the second attack. <\/p>\n

Lawmakers used Spencer\u2019s case as a springboard to create new and tougher domestic violence laws. <\/p>\n

Under an order from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Spencer is scheduled to be executed on June 25. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTHS IN THE ORANGE COUNTY JAIL. JUST A WEEK AFTER PERFORMING AT ROLLING LOUD, THE MAN AT THE…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15288,1183,265,13152,5713,121160,28,12337,3291,30,29,6693,36375,712,20064,109524,121161,24617],"class_list":["post-285650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-attack","tag-case","tag-crime","tag-death-warrant","tag-domestic-violence","tag-dusty-ray-spencer","tag-florida","tag-florida-gov-ron-desantis","tag-florida-governor","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-june","tag-karen","tag-law","tag-lawmaker","tag-spencer","tag-tough-law","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}