{"id":78162,"date":"2026-09-01T17:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/florida-executes-74-year-old-man-14th-state-prisoner-put-to-death-this-year\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:54:48","slug":"florida-executes-74-year-old-man-14th-state-prisoner-put-to-death-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/florida-executes-74-year-old-man-14th-state-prisoner-put-to-death-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida executes 74-year-old man, 14th state prisoner put to death this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Lucas, sentenced to death over 1976 murder, killed by lethal injection as state continues execution rush<\/p>\n<p>A Florida man convicted of killing a 16-year-old girl who rejected his romantic advances and wounding two of her friends was executed Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Harold Gene Lucas, 74, was pronounced dead at 6.18pm following a three-drug injection starting at 6pm at Florida state prison near Starke, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/01\/florida-14-executions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Lucas, sentenced to death over 1976 murder, killed by lethal injection as state continues execution rush A Florida man convicted of killing a 16-year-old girl who rejected his romantic advances and wounding two of her friends was executed Tuesday evening. Harold Gene Lucas, 74, was pronounced dead at 6.18pm following a three-drug injection starting &#8230; <a title=\"Florida executes 74-year-old man, 14th state prisoner put to death this year\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/florida-executes-74-year-old-man-14th-state-prisoner-put-to-death-this-year\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida executes 74-year-old man, 14th state prisoner put to death this year\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}