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Seventy-four-year-old Dusty Ray Spencer, set to become Florida’s oldest executed inmate since 1976, faces death next week for murdering his wife in 1992. His legal team and advocates call it a “nursing home execution,” highlighting his profound personal growth, childhood trauma, and addiction struggles as evidence he’s no longer the man who committed the crime. They argue his execution undermines societal humanity, especially at his age after decades of reflection. Meanwhile, Florida continues its execution spree — this is the ninth this year — with Attorney General defending the state’s stance by emphasizing the brutality of the crimes. Another execution looms just 19 days after Spencer’s, underscoring the state’s unwavering path forward despite pleas for mercy and calls to recognize rehabilitation over retribution.

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