A 74-year-old Florida death row inmate is scheduled to be executed after spending more than three decades behind bars, reopening a difficult debate over capital punishment, aging prisoners, public safety, and the cost of carrying out a death sentence years after a crime.
FOX 35 Orlando reporter Matt Trezza reported that Dusty Ray Spencer is set to be put to death on June 25, a move that would make him the oldest person ever executed by the state of Florida.
Spencer was convicted in 1992 of murdering his wife, Karen, after a trial held at what is now the Orange County Regional History Center in downtown Orlando…