June 2, 2026
Florida Baby Killer Set To Die Tonight: The Execution Of Andrew Lukehart
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RSS Feed 53-year-old Andrew Lukehart is scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight at 6pm ET for the murder of his girlfriend’s 5 month old daughter. Lukehart fractured the skull of baby Gabriella after losing his temper while changing her diaper. Hear the fabricated story he told police, before eventually admitting his guilt. And, to make matters worse, Lukehart committed the brutal killing after recently being released from prison for beating his former girlfriend’s 8-month-old daughter just two years earlier.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks.
00:00:02
Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, June second, and Florida is set to carry out yet another execution this evening, set to execute a man who was convicted of killing a five month old baby. But get this, when he did that, he was out on probation for injuring severely beating another baby. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes that part of the story is getting a lot of attention. We know executions Florida make headlines, but Robes, we're talking about a baby killer who was out of prison for almost killing another baby. This story is sickening.
00:00:46
Speaker 3: In less than two years, babe too, like just it's awful and disturbing. And yes, this is one of those cases where he is not pleading his innocence and there is no drum beat to save him that I have seen or heard anywhere. Obviously, there were always death penalty opponents out there, but this man is a tough one to defend.
00:01:05
Speaker 1: Fifty three year old Andrew leu Cart.
00:01:08
Speaker 3: Yes, he is set to die by lethal injection tonight at six pm in the state of Florida, killing a five month old.
00:01:15
Speaker 1: Little girl, Gabriella Henshaw.
00:01:18
Speaker 2: This is hard to understand. We're going to get into the details of this crime in the case in that night robes. This is tough stuff to listen to. But the five month old apparent was the daughter of his was it I wasn't clear. Was it his girlfriend or someoney he was living with at the time and her family.
00:01:34
Speaker 1: He's she's been referred to as his girlfriend.
00:01:37
Speaker 3: You know. Exactly the nature of their relationship unclear right now. But this crime happened in February of nineteen ninety.
00:01:45
Speaker 1: Six, so he was twenty two years old at the time. Think about that.
00:01:49
Speaker 3: This family, the family of this little girl, they have waited thirty one years for justice at this point. But yes, he was twenty two years old when he beat Gabriella while he was changing her diaper. He hit her in the head five times, fracturing her skull. He ultimately admitted to this, saying he lost his temper. But I say ultimately admitted because he made up a wild story that created a wild goose chase for some time. He dumped her body in a local pond, but he made up a story to police.
00:02:24
Speaker 2: This was They spent almost a day desperately searching for a baby they thought had been kidnapped. Rhabes the bizarre story that evening that he was supposed to be watching the child. He was babysitting it, not babysitting other folks there, but he was tending to the child at the time, and then all of a sudden, he's gone and the baby's gone Rose he calls the house. A half hour later, calls the family and says that he is in pursuit in his car of someone who has kidnapped the five month old. That was his story.
00:02:57
Speaker 3: Yes, he said that he had left her on a tended in his vehicle parked outside of a convenience store, and he claims that he saw this kidnapper leave in a blue I didn't know this.
00:03:09
Speaker 1: Car, baser, that's what it said, some blue car that he chased.
00:03:15
Speaker 3: And he says he got into a car accident chasing the kidnapper.
00:03:20
Speaker 1: And so, yeah, that set off a massive search.
00:03:23
Speaker 3: We're talking they said, fifty police officers, police dogs, helicopters, dive teams searching for this made up kidnapper in a blue vehicle.
00:03:34
Speaker 2: So robes you could imagine, right, and you can imagine the news coverage down there. It's everywhere five month old baby kidnapped, urgent search, child in danger. Oh my goodness, but Robes, it was almost a day. I was at eighteen hours. How they put it that he finally confessed and Robes the confession was total Bs. The confession was that yes, he killed her, but he was trying to explain it away as being an act accident. And obviously Robes, well, he said he's panicked, but rogues when they find her body was clear this was no accident. And to hear what someone we've had, why we had so many of these cases lately where kids are being harmed, murdered, stabbed and whatnot, and oftentimes by family members or somebody they know. I don't understand how he did this to a five month old baby.
00:04:23
Speaker 3: It's it's really hard to get your head around. And I just it's so disgusting too, because yes, he eventually admitted to hitting her, but he testified in his trial in his own defense, that he loved her, that he never intended to kill her. And look, I don't know what the actual maybe it was an expletive, but at trial his quote was if only she hadn't dirtied her diaper, but he used another phrase, like as if it was her fault, if only she hadn't dirtied her diaper.
00:04:57
Speaker 1: Like just even hearing.
00:04:59
Speaker 3: His head like to say those words testifying in his own defense is disgusting.
00:05:05
Speaker 2: But he got so frustrated that he had to kill the baby, like that makes zero sense. But Robes, once they pulled the baby's body out of with a pond, was it. It became clear that this child was hit repeatedly.
00:05:18
Speaker 3: They said, at least five times in the head. I mean he fractured her skull.
00:05:22
Speaker 2: I think about the size of a five months baby. You can almost put in a palm, right, I can't. And so it's some of these things are are tough to stomach and understand, Robes, this case is one of them. But this this isn't a case that anyone has argued Robes for his innocence or anything needs to be retested, or any questions like that.
00:05:46
Speaker 1: Nothing like that. And then when you hear about and I just you know, I just wonder too.
00:05:53
Speaker 3: You just questioned, maybe the mom, the girlfriend believed that he really didn't mean to harm another girlfriend's infant two years prior, but she had to have known. I can only imagine that her boyfriend was out on probation, yes, for the nineteen ninety four beating of his previous girlfriend's daughter. And when you hear what he did to this little baby, it actually, thank god she survived. But I don't even know how she did. When you hear about what he did to an eight month old, so almost exactly the same age, and a little girl also eight month old Jillian, he beat her so badly that not only did he fracture her skull as well, he broke both of her legs, an arm, and two ribs. How do you do that to an eight month old?
00:06:46
Speaker 2: He served prison, He only.
00:06:49
Speaker 3: Served ten months in a county jail. And look he even lied about that too. When he had obviously done this horrific thing to this little eight month old, he told the police a made up story. He said that he found her drowning in the bathtub and then he was trying to revive her, and her head was injured when he fell while holding her. So all these injuries, her broken legs, both of her legs were broken.
00:07:19
Speaker 1: I don't even know how you do that to a baby.
00:07:21
Speaker 3: An arm, two ribs or skull, he claims because he fell while trying to revive her after she was drowning in the bathtub. So anyway he gets he pleads guilty, he is convicted. But yes, he served ten months, and they said there was a number of reasons why he didn't have a prior conviction. So I guess at that point he would have been twenty years old, twenty twenty one, so he had no prior convictions.
00:07:42
Speaker 1: He had an explanation.
00:07:44
Speaker 3: That he claimed why the baby was injured, and then they also said overcrowding at that time in Florida's prisons were so bad that a lot of even violent criminals were only serving a third of their sentences.
00:07:58
Speaker 1: So he was allowed out. Yes, that was a county jail, county jail.
00:08:02
Speaker 2: I know you've done this plenty throughout your career working in smaller markets. You go to a bunch of small counties, in these little towns. That used to be something they talked about all the time. They would let folks go because we got to make room for maybe a more dangerous person. That it's sad that that's the case, But are we really saying that we didn't have enough space for this guy and now somebody's dead.
00:08:21
Speaker 3: That's absolutely that contributed to him getting out early. And you know, Jillian's grandmother and the little the one who was beaten, not the one who died, but the little girl who was beaten. They were so upset, understandably about how short of a sentence he received and when he was when he got out. They gave a at once they found out then that he went on within a year to kill another to kill a little girl. Her grandmother spoke out to the local news media and said she always feared another child would be in danger. Her quote was, I was just waiting to hear about something else.
00:08:59
Speaker 1: And that is it's just so sad.
00:09:01
Speaker 3: I can't even imagine being the mother or just anyone who loved this little girl, Gabriella, to know that he shouldn't have been out of prison period.
00:09:13
Speaker 1: There's no plausible.
00:09:15
Speaker 3: Explanation that makes any sense why somebody that vicious and that violent should be allowed out only serving less than a year.
00:09:23
Speaker 2: And that's I mean, there's what ifs, There's all this stuff, but rolls, that's the justice system. We hear it failing folks all the time. And that five month old possibly is dead because of what overcrowding. Yeah, we don't have space for this one, So we got to let him out. And now somebody's dead. It's tough to deal. And look, we cover a bunch of executions. All of them are complicated in their own way, but some of these crimes oftentimes are complicated even before we get to execution day. And here we are, and there are complications with this, right there's always an appeal or some argument being made about their mental capacity or health reason. There's always something who these are complicated.
00:10:02
Speaker 1: He they certainly are.
00:10:03
Speaker 3: And so when we come back, we're going to tell you what Lukart is challenging and has challenge in court, what his appeal is because of course, even though he admitted to all of this, he doesn't want to die. We'll tell you his reason when we come back, and welcome back everybody to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking about fifty three year old Andrew Lucart. He is set to die by lethal injection in the state of Florida tonight at six pm Eastern time. This is more than three decades after he was convicted of murdering his girlfriend's five month old daughter, and this comes after just two years prior being in prison for just in humanely beating his other girlfriend's eight month old daughters. So this is a man who showed within a period of two years, disgusting, unthinkable, horrific violence to infant babies. I mean, I know that's redundant, but infants, and they're little babies. They couldn't I mean, Gabriella couldn't even sit five months old.
00:11:18
Speaker 1: She couldn't even crawl. She was helpless.
00:11:21
Speaker 2: No, it's worth the way you're saying. It is worth saying. Maybe you think a baby is one thing you think about. A child is another thing. You think about an infant as one thing. And look, you could talk about a one year old. It's about a two year old. I still call them babies, but robes the emphasis months, five month old, eight months old. Think about the size of that. How many, how much? How many? It's just a five month.
00:11:42
Speaker 1: Aldway, I mean, I can't like fifteen pounds at the moment.
00:11:46
Speaker 2: It's just you don't get it, the strength of it. Doesn't take a lot right to harm a child that's small. And the type of violence they're talking about he used on babies. It speaks to something with him that even though they said he didn't have a criminal pass after that first incident. Well, there's something in absolutely.
00:12:07
Speaker 3: I mean you think about like I would like to check out the small animals he lived around, like that kind of awful violence towards something that's so helpless.
00:12:16
Speaker 2: This doesn't come out of nowhere.
00:12:18
Speaker 1: That's monstrous.
00:12:19
Speaker 3: So despite all of that, of course, Andrew Lucart doesn't want to die, so he had been challenging his execution. He claimed through his attorneys that lethal injection would be cruel and unusual because of his kidney disease. So his argument was that, I think this was the quote from the court filings, there is substantial and imminent risk that executing Luke Cart under those procedures will very likely cause him needless pain and suffering. Well, the Florida Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court have denied his appeal on those grounds, and his only other option, of course, would be Governor Ron DeSantis option and.
00:13:00
Speaker 2: Is not an option. DESANDERSI design anything that says death warrant at the top of it. If you put it across his desk and look to a certain degree of robes, you don't agree with the death penalty, but if you're gonna have it, Why are you waiting having families wait forty years for justice? Why a you're waiting thirty years Robes. There's an argument to be made there. I mean, you want to criticize him how quickly he's doing these things and why not the sentence is there. I'm just saying, go ahead and carry it out.
00:13:30
Speaker 3: I hear you, and look, I understand, and we have our personal opinions about the death penalty, but that aside. The law right now is the law, and to enforce the law is part of a governor's job, and so it does make sense. And he is clearing out death row, which has been clogged up. And as we talked about, the reason why Andrew Lukart was even out was potentially because of in part of overcrowding of prisons.
00:13:55
Speaker 1: He's he's getting death row cleared out. I mean, truly he is.
00:14:01
Speaker 3: And that is what a lot of folks applaud him for doing. In the state of Florida.
00:14:05
Speaker 2: What is this is there eighth of the year of the year they had what last year, nineteen nineteen, So they are on or a little ahead of pace, yes, for this year, and.
00:14:16
Speaker 3: I believe that, Well, there's another execution in Alabama scheduled for this month June eleventh.
00:14:22
Speaker 1: I thought it was mid month, but oh, Florida has another one, Florilorida has another one.
00:14:26
Speaker 3: Correct, and they keep adding like the way we've you know, we never really followed this as closely as we have been on this podcast, but you'll start to see just basically week after week, they just keep adding and adding. In Florida, I just constantly is putting things on the schedule, so we don't know what the end number will be, but he's on pace eight for them.
00:14:47
Speaker 2: Florida is next that they've had four this year and again, and to look at the list and how many are planned for the year just is irrelevant. Because they keep signing, keep acting. There is an argument that the stant is you know, he legally can do it. Make the argument you're not giving people enough time to go through due process of their appeals. He gives for us about thirty days. I think he can give them up to three months or plus. But again, it's not illegal. He's following whatever law down there. But Rose and this will be different. Who is the ah? I'm sorry, maybe you'll remember the last guy who had his it was stopped because they couldn't find Tennessee second vein, so they use a one drug cocktail. There, Florida uses a three drug cocktail. Now, I don't know, does it make it more difficult to find veins because you got more things to put into the arm. But they give a sedative, something a paralytic, and then the actual drug that stops your heart. That's their process in Florida. And it seems like it's been going off without a hitch.
00:15:48
Speaker 1: It's been smooth.
00:15:48
Speaker 3: Well, let's just say practice makes perfect and they have had plenty of practice. And we will let you know obviously if everything goes off without a hitch tomorrow on tomorrow's morning run. But just wanted to put that on your radar everybody, and we always appreciate you listening to us. I made me Robach alongside TJ.
00:16:06
Speaker 1: Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks.
00:00:02
Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, June second, and Florida is set to carry out yet another execution this evening, set to execute a man who was convicted of killing a five month old baby. But get this, when he did that, he was out on probation for injuring severely beating another baby. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes that part of the story is getting a lot of attention. We know executions Florida make headlines, but Robes, we're talking about a baby killer who was out of prison for almost killing another baby. This story is sickening.
00:00:46
Speaker 3: In less than two years, babe too, like just it's awful and disturbing. And yes, this is one of those cases where he is not pleading his innocence and there is no drum beat to save him that I have seen or heard anywhere. Obviously, there were always death penalty opponents out there, but this man is a tough one to defend.
00:01:05
Speaker 1: Fifty three year old Andrew leu Cart.
00:01:08
Speaker 3: Yes, he is set to die by lethal injection tonight at six pm in the state of Florida, killing a five month old.
00:01:15
Speaker 1: Little girl, Gabriella Henshaw.
00:01:18
Speaker 2: This is hard to understand. We're going to get into the details of this crime in the case in that night robes. This is tough stuff to listen to. But the five month old apparent was the daughter of his was it I wasn't clear. Was it his girlfriend or someoney he was living with at the time and her family.
00:01:34
Speaker 1: He's she's been referred to as his girlfriend.
00:01:37
Speaker 3: You know. Exactly the nature of their relationship unclear right now. But this crime happened in February of nineteen ninety.
00:01:45
Speaker 1: Six, so he was twenty two years old at the time. Think about that.
00:01:49
Speaker 3: This family, the family of this little girl, they have waited thirty one years for justice at this point. But yes, he was twenty two years old when he beat Gabriella while he was changing her diaper. He hit her in the head five times, fracturing her skull. He ultimately admitted to this, saying he lost his temper. But I say ultimately admitted because he made up a wild story that created a wild goose chase for some time. He dumped her body in a local pond, but he made up a story to police.
00:02:24
Speaker 2: This was They spent almost a day desperately searching for a baby they thought had been kidnapped. Rhabes the bizarre story that evening that he was supposed to be watching the child. He was babysitting it, not babysitting other folks there, but he was tending to the child at the time, and then all of a sudden, he's gone and the baby's gone Rose he calls the house. A half hour later, calls the family and says that he is in pursuit in his car of someone who has kidnapped the five month old. That was his story.
00:02:57
Speaker 3: Yes, he said that he had left her on a tended in his vehicle parked outside of a convenience store, and he claims that he saw this kidnapper leave in a blue I didn't know this.
00:03:09
Speaker 1: Car, baser, that's what it said, some blue car that he chased.
00:03:15
Speaker 3: And he says he got into a car accident chasing the kidnapper.
00:03:20
Speaker 1: And so, yeah, that set off a massive search.
00:03:23
Speaker 3: We're talking they said, fifty police officers, police dogs, helicopters, dive teams searching for this made up kidnapper in a blue vehicle.
00:03:34
Speaker 2: So robes you could imagine, right, and you can imagine the news coverage down there. It's everywhere five month old baby kidnapped, urgent search, child in danger. Oh my goodness, but Robes, it was almost a day. I was at eighteen hours. How they put it that he finally confessed and Robes the confession was total Bs. The confession was that yes, he killed her, but he was trying to explain it away as being an act accident. And obviously Robes, well, he said he's panicked, but rogues when they find her body was clear this was no accident. And to hear what someone we've had, why we had so many of these cases lately where kids are being harmed, murdered, stabbed and whatnot, and oftentimes by family members or somebody they know. I don't understand how he did this to a five month old baby.
00:04:23
Speaker 3: It's it's really hard to get your head around. And I just it's so disgusting too, because yes, he eventually admitted to hitting her, but he testified in his trial in his own defense, that he loved her, that he never intended to kill her. And look, I don't know what the actual maybe it was an expletive, but at trial his quote was if only she hadn't dirtied her diaper, but he used another phrase, like as if it was her fault, if only she hadn't dirtied her diaper.
00:04:57
Speaker 1: Like just even hearing.
00:04:59
Speaker 3: His head like to say those words testifying in his own defense is disgusting.
00:05:05
Speaker 2: But he got so frustrated that he had to kill the baby, like that makes zero sense. But Robes, once they pulled the baby's body out of with a pond, was it. It became clear that this child was hit repeatedly.
00:05:18
Speaker 3: They said, at least five times in the head. I mean he fractured her skull.
00:05:22
Speaker 2: I think about the size of a five months baby. You can almost put in a palm, right, I can't. And so it's some of these things are are tough to stomach and understand, Robes, this case is one of them. But this this isn't a case that anyone has argued Robes for his innocence or anything needs to be retested, or any questions like that.
00:05:46
Speaker 1: Nothing like that. And then when you hear about and I just you know, I just wonder too.
00:05:53
Speaker 3: You just questioned, maybe the mom, the girlfriend believed that he really didn't mean to harm another girlfriend's infant two years prior, but she had to have known. I can only imagine that her boyfriend was out on probation, yes, for the nineteen ninety four beating of his previous girlfriend's daughter. And when you hear what he did to this little baby, it actually, thank god she survived. But I don't even know how she did. When you hear about what he did to an eight month old, so almost exactly the same age, and a little girl also eight month old Jillian, he beat her so badly that not only did he fracture her skull as well, he broke both of her legs, an arm, and two ribs. How do you do that to an eight month old?
00:06:46
Speaker 2: He served prison, He only.
00:06:49
Speaker 3: Served ten months in a county jail. And look he even lied about that too. When he had obviously done this horrific thing to this little eight month old, he told the police a made up story. He said that he found her drowning in the bathtub and then he was trying to revive her, and her head was injured when he fell while holding her. So all these injuries, her broken legs, both of her legs were broken.
00:07:19
Speaker 1: I don't even know how you do that to a baby.
00:07:21
Speaker 3: An arm, two ribs or skull, he claims because he fell while trying to revive her after she was drowning in the bathtub. So anyway he gets he pleads guilty, he is convicted. But yes, he served ten months, and they said there was a number of reasons why he didn't have a prior conviction. So I guess at that point he would have been twenty years old, twenty twenty one, so he had no prior convictions.
00:07:42
Speaker 1: He had an explanation.
00:07:44
Speaker 3: That he claimed why the baby was injured, and then they also said overcrowding at that time in Florida's prisons were so bad that a lot of even violent criminals were only serving a third of their sentences.
00:07:58
Speaker 1: So he was allowed out. Yes, that was a county jail, county jail.
00:08:02
Speaker 2: I know you've done this plenty throughout your career working in smaller markets. You go to a bunch of small counties, in these little towns. That used to be something they talked about all the time. They would let folks go because we got to make room for maybe a more dangerous person. That it's sad that that's the case, But are we really saying that we didn't have enough space for this guy and now somebody's dead.
00:08:21
Speaker 3: That's absolutely that contributed to him getting out early. And you know, Jillian's grandmother and the little the one who was beaten, not the one who died, but the little girl who was beaten. They were so upset, understandably about how short of a sentence he received and when he was when he got out. They gave a at once they found out then that he went on within a year to kill another to kill a little girl. Her grandmother spoke out to the local news media and said she always feared another child would be in danger. Her quote was, I was just waiting to hear about something else.
00:08:59
Speaker 1: And that is it's just so sad.
00:09:01
Speaker 3: I can't even imagine being the mother or just anyone who loved this little girl, Gabriella, to know that he shouldn't have been out of prison period.
00:09:13
Speaker 1: There's no plausible.
00:09:15
Speaker 3: Explanation that makes any sense why somebody that vicious and that violent should be allowed out only serving less than a year.
00:09:23
Speaker 2: And that's I mean, there's what ifs, There's all this stuff, but rolls, that's the justice system. We hear it failing folks all the time. And that five month old possibly is dead because of what overcrowding. Yeah, we don't have space for this one, So we got to let him out. And now somebody's dead. It's tough to deal. And look, we cover a bunch of executions. All of them are complicated in their own way, but some of these crimes oftentimes are complicated even before we get to execution day. And here we are, and there are complications with this, right there's always an appeal or some argument being made about their mental capacity or health reason. There's always something who these are complicated.
00:10:02
Speaker 1: He they certainly are.
00:10:03
Speaker 3: And so when we come back, we're going to tell you what Lukart is challenging and has challenge in court, what his appeal is because of course, even though he admitted to all of this, he doesn't want to die. We'll tell you his reason when we come back, and welcome back everybody to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking about fifty three year old Andrew Lucart. He is set to die by lethal injection in the state of Florida tonight at six pm Eastern time. This is more than three decades after he was convicted of murdering his girlfriend's five month old daughter, and this comes after just two years prior being in prison for just in humanely beating his other girlfriend's eight month old daughters. So this is a man who showed within a period of two years, disgusting, unthinkable, horrific violence to infant babies. I mean, I know that's redundant, but infants, and they're little babies. They couldn't I mean, Gabriella couldn't even sit five months old.
00:11:18
Speaker 1: She couldn't even crawl. She was helpless.
00:11:21
Speaker 2: No, it's worth the way you're saying. It is worth saying. Maybe you think a baby is one thing you think about. A child is another thing. You think about an infant as one thing. And look, you could talk about a one year old. It's about a two year old. I still call them babies, but robes the emphasis months, five month old, eight months old. Think about the size of that. How many, how much? How many? It's just a five month.
00:11:42
Speaker 1: Aldway, I mean, I can't like fifteen pounds at the moment.
00:11:46
Speaker 2: It's just you don't get it, the strength of it. Doesn't take a lot right to harm a child that's small. And the type of violence they're talking about he used on babies. It speaks to something with him that even though they said he didn't have a criminal pass after that first incident. Well, there's something in absolutely.
00:12:07
Speaker 3: I mean you think about like I would like to check out the small animals he lived around, like that kind of awful violence towards something that's so helpless.
00:12:16
Speaker 2: This doesn't come out of nowhere.
00:12:18
Speaker 1: That's monstrous.
00:12:19
Speaker 3: So despite all of that, of course, Andrew Lucart doesn't want to die, so he had been challenging his execution. He claimed through his attorneys that lethal injection would be cruel and unusual because of his kidney disease. So his argument was that, I think this was the quote from the court filings, there is substantial and imminent risk that executing Luke Cart under those procedures will very likely cause him needless pain and suffering. Well, the Florida Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court have denied his appeal on those grounds, and his only other option, of course, would be Governor Ron DeSantis option and.
00:13:00
Speaker 2: Is not an option. DESANDERSI design anything that says death warrant at the top of it. If you put it across his desk and look to a certain degree of robes, you don't agree with the death penalty, but if you're gonna have it, Why are you waiting having families wait forty years for justice? Why a you're waiting thirty years Robes. There's an argument to be made there. I mean, you want to criticize him how quickly he's doing these things and why not the sentence is there. I'm just saying, go ahead and carry it out.
00:13:30
Speaker 3: I hear you, and look, I understand, and we have our personal opinions about the death penalty, but that aside. The law right now is the law, and to enforce the law is part of a governor's job, and so it does make sense. And he is clearing out death row, which has been clogged up. And as we talked about, the reason why Andrew Lukart was even out was potentially because of in part of overcrowding of prisons.
00:13:55
Speaker 1: He's he's getting death row cleared out. I mean, truly he is.
00:14:01
Speaker 3: And that is what a lot of folks applaud him for doing. In the state of Florida.
00:14:05
Speaker 2: What is this is there eighth of the year of the year they had what last year, nineteen nineteen, So they are on or a little ahead of pace, yes, for this year, and.
00:14:16
Speaker 3: I believe that, Well, there's another execution in Alabama scheduled for this month June eleventh.
00:14:22
Speaker 1: I thought it was mid month, but oh, Florida has another one, Florilorida has another one.
00:14:26
Speaker 3: Correct, and they keep adding like the way we've you know, we never really followed this as closely as we have been on this podcast, but you'll start to see just basically week after week, they just keep adding and adding. In Florida, I just constantly is putting things on the schedule, so we don't know what the end number will be, but he's on pace eight for them.
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Speaker 2: Florida is next that they've had four this year and again, and to look at the list and how many are planned for the year just is irrelevant. Because they keep signing, keep acting. There is an argument that the stant is you know, he legally can do it. Make the argument you're not giving people enough time to go through due process of their appeals. He gives for us about thirty days. I think he can give them up to three months or plus. But again, it's not illegal. He's following whatever law down there. But Rose and this will be different. Who is the ah? I'm sorry, maybe you'll remember the last guy who had his it was stopped because they couldn't find Tennessee second vein, so they use a one drug cocktail. There, Florida uses a three drug cocktail. Now, I don't know, does it make it more difficult to find veins because you got more things to put into the arm. But they give a sedative, something a paralytic, and then the actual drug that stops your heart. That's their process in Florida. And it seems like it's been going off without a hitch.
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Speaker 1: It's been smooth.
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Speaker 3: Well, let's just say practice makes perfect and they have had plenty of practice. And we will let you know obviously if everything goes off without a hitch tomorrow on tomorrow's morning run. But just wanted to put that on your radar everybody, and we always appreciate you listening to us. I made me Robach alongside TJ.
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Speaker 1: Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.