Owen's lawyers had argued that he shouldn't be executed on grounds of insanity. One of Worden's children found her body the next morning while getting ready for school, according to the record.ĭelray Beach and Boca Raton are both about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Miami, in Palm Beach County. Two months later, in May 1984, Worden was sleeping in her Boca Raton home when Owen struck her several times with a hammer and raped her, according to court records. Slattery was repeatedly stabbed and raped in a home in Delray Beach while two children in her care were sleeping. DeSantis signed each of the death warrants in the months before announcing he is running for president. It was Florida’s fourth execution this year after a hiatus in which there were none since 2019. Of the more than 290 people on Florida’s death row, Owen was one of the longest held there.īesides his death sentences, he also had received six life sentences. All four attacks occurred just before and after Owen’s 23rd birthday. Both killings occurred in Palm Beach County.Īuthorities said Owen attacked two other women in Palm Beach County who survived. He was sentenced to death for the March 24, 1984, rape and fatal stabbing of Karen Slattery, 14, and for the rape and deadly hammer attack two months later on Georgianna Worden, 38. One of Florida’s longest-held death row inmates, Owen was 23 at the time of the attacks and 62 when he was executed. after a lethal injection at Florida State Prison, according to Gov. (AP) - A Florida man was executed Thursday for killing a 14-year-old babysitter and a 38-year-old mother of two in separate attacks months apart in 1984 while children were sleeping in the homes he targeted.ĭuane Owen was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m.
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