Florida’s Eighth Execution This Year

This Tuesday, fifty-three-year-old Andrew Richard Lukehart faces execution in Florida — the state’s eighth this year — for brutally murdering his girlfriend’s five-month-old daughter in 1996, shaking her to death and dumping her body in a pond. Despite multiple appeals, including a last-ditch effort to the U.S. Supreme Court citing medical risks and rushed timing, his case has been denied. With Governor DeSantis overseeing a record number of executions last year, another death penalty case looms later this month. Support the show:Get a discount at https://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/d2c531435938656a