ORLANDO, Fla. — An Orange County man who brutally killed his wife decades ago, in a murder that shocked Central Florida and dramatically changed the way domestic violence is treated, is slated to become the oldest person ever executed in Florida next week.
But advocates are calling on Gov. Ron DeSantis to stay his execution, arguing he is too elderly and sick to be put to death.
Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, was convicted in 1992 of the premeditated murder of his wife, Karen Spencer, just outside of her west Orange County home earlier that year. He smashed her face with a brick, slammed her head against a concrete wall and stabbed her twice in the chest in front of her 18-year-old son, who tried to intervene…