Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDusty Ray Spencer, a 74-year-old Orange County man convicted of murdering his wife, Karen Spencer, was executed by lethal injection Thursday night, becoming the ninth person executed in Florida this year. Spencer\u2019s final words included an apology to the family and a message to the Lord, saying he was on his way. Hours before his execution, his spiritual advisor read a longer, prepared statement from Spencer. “I’m so grateful for the transformation that Christ has brought about in my life. No, I’m not the man I once was. Words cannot express how sorry I am for what I did to Karen. I make no excuses. What I did was wrong and I’ve carried it every day,” Spencer’s statement read.In January 1992, detectives said Spencer stabbed his wife, Karen, and beat her with a brick at their home off Clarcona-Ocoee Road. Just a month after he was arrested and released for choking and threatening her. Karen\u2019s son, Tim, tried to intervene, but Karen did not survive. WESH 2 spoke with Tim after Spencer was sentenced in the 1990s. “I’m very happy about it,” Tim said of the sentencing.When asked if he felt sorry for Spencer, he said, “No. Not at all. He gets what he deserves.” Karen\u2019s family declined to comment Thursday. In his final statement, Spencer addressed Tim directly. “Timothy, I made you carry what no child should. I’m ashamed of what I did to you. I’m sorry,” Spencer’s statement read. A detective who worked on Karen\u2019s case told WESH 2 in the 1990s that he believed Spencer should get the death penalty. Speaking earlier this month, the detective said his opinion had not changed. “I mean, he brutalized that lady and the fact that he did it in front of her son, yes. That hasn’t changed,” the detective said. Reflecting on how Karen\u2019s family might feel after Spencer\u2019s execution, the detective added, “Their family has been changed drastically since that happened. Nothing can change that.”\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Dusty Ray Spencer, a 74-year-old Orange County man convicted of murdering his wife, Karen Spencer, was executed by lethal injection Thursday night, becoming the ninth person executed in Florida this year. <\/p>\n
Spencer\u2019s final words included an apology to the family and a message to the Lord, saying he was on his way. Hours before his execution, his spiritual advisor read a longer, prepared statement from Spencer. <\/p>\n
“I’m so grateful for the transformation that Christ has brought about in my life. No, I’m not the man I once was. Words cannot express how sorry I am for what I did to Karen. I make no excuses. What I did was wrong and I’ve carried it every day,” Spencer’s statement read.<\/p>\n
In January 1992, detectives said Spencer stabbed his wife, Karen, and beat her with a brick at their home off Clarcona-Ocoee Road. Just a month after he was arrested and released for choking and threatening her. Karen\u2019s son, Tim, tried to intervene, but Karen did not survive. <\/p>\n
WESH 2 spoke with Tim after Spencer was sentenced in the 1990s. <\/p>\n
“I’m very happy about it,” Tim said of the sentencing.<\/p>\n
When asked if he felt sorry for Spencer, he said, “No. Not at all. He gets what he deserves.” <\/p>\n
Karen\u2019s family declined to comment Thursday. <\/p>\n
In his final statement, Spencer addressed Tim directly. <\/p>\n
“Timothy, I made you carry what no child should. I’m ashamed of what I did to you. I’m sorry,” Spencer’s statement read. <\/p>\n
A detective who worked on Karen\u2019s case told WESH 2 in the 1990s that he believed Spencer should get the death penalty. Speaking earlier this month, the detective said his opinion had not changed<\/a>. <\/p>\n“I mean, he brutalized that lady and the fact that he did it in front of her son, yes. That hasn’t changed,” the detective said. <\/p>\n
Reflecting on how Karen\u2019s family might feel after Spencer\u2019s execution, the detective added, “Their family has been changed drastically since that happened. Nothing can change that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILDFIRES THAT SPREAD ACROSS LOS ANGELES IN 2025. TONIGHT IN ORANGE COUNTY, MAN BECAME THE NINTH PERSON EXECUTED…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-320235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320235","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=320235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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