Florida to execute 14th person on death row this year Tuesday night

By: Mitch Perry

Outlets: Florida Phoenix

Published: September 1, 2026

Words: 307

Last Updated: 11 hours, 43 minutes ago

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Harold Gene Lucas, one of Florida’s longest serving death-row prisoners, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 P.M. Tuesday at Florida State Prison near Starke. It will be the 14th execution by Florida officials this year.

Lucas, 74, was sentenced to death — and resentenced to death four more times — after being convicted in 1977 of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder in the 1976 death in Bonita …

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