Nearly four decades after murdering a mother and a teenage babysitter in Palm Beach County, Duane Owen was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison.
Duane Owen (left) will become the fourth Florida death row inmate executed this year, after he spent four decades awaiting his fate and attempting to convince doctors he is mentally ill.
Duane Owen, a Florida man convicted of the 1984 killing of a babysitter as two children slept and a woman in a separate murder and rapes, was executed Thursday after being one of the state's longest-serving death row inmates.