Death Row After 50 Years | Charleston News

After half a century on death row, 74-year-old Harold Gene Lucas was executed in Florida Tuesday for the 1976 murder of 16-year-old Jill Piper — a crime that also wounded three others. The lethal injection, administered at 6 p.m., marked the 14th execution ordered by Governor Ron DeSantis this year. Lucas, then 24, had dated Piper for years and allegedly threatened her twice before the fatal shooting — which followed his trespassing arrest just a week earlier. Convicted in 1977, he endured five separate death sentences over decades before this final act of justice. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/1ba0ac019af27466