(Starke, FL) – 74-year-old Convicted killer Dennis Sochor on death row for 40 years is scheduled to be executed tonight.<\/p>\n
His death will make history as the oldest inmate to ever be put to death in the state.<\/p>\n
Yes, Dennis Ray Spencer, was technically two weeks older than Sochor when he was executed on June 25, 2026. But, Sochor has been kept alive 19 days longer than Spencer.<\/p>\n
He was convicted of the 1982 murder of Patty Gifford in Broward County. She was sexually assaulted and strangled after a New Year’s Eve party, but her remains were never found. <\/p>\n
Gifford’s family plans to attend the execution and still hopes he reveals where he left her body. <\/p>\n
Florida is expected to break the age record again July 18th when 80-year-old Dominick Occhicone is scheduled to die for killing his former girlfriend’s parents in 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Starke, FL) – 74-year-old Convicted killer Dennis Sochor on death row for 40 years is scheduled to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[85000,23311,249,251,250,23307,84998,84996,115,84997,807,84999,729,221],"class_list":["post-339587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-clear-channel-miami","tag-coast-to-coast","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-glenn-beck","tag-hannity","tag-jimmy-cefalo","tag-news","tag-schnitt","tag-south-florida","tag-the-weather-channel-wall-street-journal","tag-traffic","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339587","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=339587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}