{"id":252757,"date":"2026-04-30T17:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252757\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:55:41","slug":"james-ernest-hitchcock-set-to-be-executed-in-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252757\/","title":{"rendered":"James Ernest Hitchcock set to be executed in Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-ea1137ca=\"\">\u00a070-year-old James Ernest Hitchcock has been on death row for nearly 50 years in Florida, having been convicted of beating and choking his 13-year-old niece to death in 1976 after raping her. He is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. Thursday at Florida State Prison near Starke. Former Chief Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, Belvin Perry Jr., served as prosecutor in one of Hitchcock&#8217;s first resentencings. He joined FOX 35&#8217;s Garrett Wymer live over Zoom to break down the case.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0April 30, 2026 11:48am EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a070-year-old James Ernest Hitchcock has been on death row for nearly 50 years in Florida, having been convicted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-252757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}