One of the longest-held inmates on Florida's death row is set to be executed for two 1984 slayings. Duane Owen is set to receive a lethal injection for the March 1984 rape and stabbing death of a teenager, and the rape and attack on a mother of two.
FILE - This booking photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Duane Owen. Owen, one of Florida's longest-serving inmates on death row, is scheduled to be executed Thursday, June 15, 2023, for the 1984 murder of a 14-year-old babysitter while two children she was watching slept and separately raping and killing a mother of two.
Duane Owen is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. EDT at Florida State Prison in Starke. He drew death sentences for the March 24, 1984, rape and stabbing attack on Karen Slattery, 14, and for the rape and killling of Georgianna Worden, 38, in May 1984, both in Palm Beach County. Slattery was repeatedly stabbed and raped in a home in Delray Beach while two children in her care were sleeping.
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