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Hey there, folks.

It is Tuesday, July 14th, and it was just a couple of weeks ago that Florida executed the oldest inmate in that state's history.

Tonight, they're going to execute somebody even older.

And with that, welcome to this episode of

amy and tj a 74 year old on death row being executed people have feelings about it but

well we know how florida feels uh yes because this is the second 74 year old in a matter of

weeks that florida is set to execute. This gentleman's name,

and I hate to even say gentleman, because when you hear what he's done, that probably wasn't the

right term to you. Seventy-year-old Dennis Soker is said to die tonight at 6 p.m. Eastern Time by lethal

injection. And yes, he will officially be the oldest inmate ever to be executed in Florida

because he will be exactly one week older than Dusty Ray Spencer, who was executed last month

at the age of 74. What are the chances? Is that intentional? Do they go through and look for the

oldest? Ah, let's clear the books here. It just seems like a bizarre coincidence that back to back,

oldest in history. And then add to that, later this month in just a couple of weeks, they're going

to beat their own record once again with an 80-year-old death row inmate scheduled to be executed.

So, yes, three in a row, each one setting a record for being the oldest inmate

ever executed in the state of Florida. And people are having that debate. What is cruel and

unusual? Is it cruel and unusual because of the age, because of the health problems, because of

the skin, the difficulty in finding of vein, because of things, where the people have the question, do you execute an elderly person? Is that automatically cruel and

unusual? I don't know. But the argument on the other side is, yeah, where he's still being

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