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Florida Schedules 74-Year-Old Execution, 80-Year-Old Next

7/14/2026

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Florida will execute 74-year-old Dennis Sochor by lethal injection at 6 p.m. EDT on July 14, 2026.
He was convicted of murdering 18-year-old Patricia Gifford on Jan. 1, 1982, though her body remains missing.
After Florida’s Supreme Court denied his appeals, his lawyers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the execution.
Eighty-year-old Dominick Anthony Occhicone is scheduled for execution on July 28, 2026, the nation’s second-oldest inmate ever executed.

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Florida will execute 74-year-old Dennis Sochor by lethal injection at 6 p.m. EDT on July 14, 2026.
He was convicted of murdering 18-year-old Patricia Gifford on Jan. 1, 1982, though her body remains missing.
After Florida’s Supreme Court denied his appeals, his lawyers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the execution.
Eighty-year-old Dominick Anthony Occhicone is scheduled for execution on July 28, 2026, the nation’s second-oldest inmate ever executed.