Florida to Execute Duane Owen, Convicted of Multiple Murders and Rapes in 1984.

Duane Owen, one of the longest-serving inmates on Florida's death row, is set to be executed for two separate killings in 1984, the fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old babysitter and the hammer attack on a mother of two. Owen attacked two other women in Palm Beach County who survived. His lawyers argued that he shouldn't be executed on grounds of insanity, but the state Supreme Court rejected his latest appeal last week and the U.S. Supreme Court rejected it Wednesday. If the lethal injection is carried out, it would be Florida's fourth execution this year after none since 2019.