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Patricia Gifford
Coverage of Patricia Gifford in the Nexus archive.
- Florida death row inmate wants DeSantis to attend his pending execution
Dennis Michael Sochor, a Florida death row inmate convicted of murdering an 18-year-old woman in 1981, is scheduled for lethal injection and has requested Gov. Ron DeSantis attend his execution. Sochor’s execution would make him the 10th person executed in Florida this year, with DeSantis’s selection process for executions criticized for lacking transparency.