The US state of Florida on Thursday executed a man convicted of murdering and sexually assaulting two women in 1984, rejecting a fina
Duane Owen, 62, was put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison at 6:14 pm “without incident,” Florida Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kayla McLaughlin said.
In one of the murders, Owen broke into a home in the southern Florida city of Boca Raton and bludgeoned a 38-year-old woman to death with a hammer as her children slept in other rooms, then sexually assaulted her, a jury found in 1988.At trial, Owen confessed to the murder of the woman, who was not further identified in court documents since she was a sexual assault victim.
After reaching a verdict on Owen’s guilt, the jury recommended a death sentence on a 10-to-2 vote, and the trial judge followed the jury’s recommendation. Owen was convicted separately of the fatal stabbing and rape of a 14-year-old babysitter at a home in Delray Beach earlier the same year.
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