{"id":253064,"date":"2026-04-30T22:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253064\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:05:14","slug":"media-will-witness-the-execution-of-james-hitchcock-in-florida-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253064\/","title":{"rendered":"Media will witness the execution of James Hitchcock in Florida tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke. Hitchcock was initially sentenced to death in 1977 after being convicted of first-degree murder in the July 31, 1976, killing of Cynthia Driggers. Following a series of appeals, he was resentenced to death in 1988, 1993 and 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[265,408,28,30,29,110381],"class_list":["post-253064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime","tag-death-penalty","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-james-hitchcock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253064","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=253064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}