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Harold Lucas Faces Execution After 50 Years | Gainesville News
Seventy-four-year-old Harold Gene Lucas, set for execution this Tuesday, has waived all appeals after spending five decades on death row — calling it “the sooner it’s over, the better he’ll enjoy it.” Convicted in 1976 for murdering 16-year-old Jill Piper and wounding two friends during a violent home invasion he orchestrated with a rifle, Lucas has been sentenced to death five times across multiple trials and appeals. Florida, already executing 19 people this year — more than half of the U.S. total — plans two more lethal injections later this month under Governor Ron DeSantis’…
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