FL Execution: 50 Years on Death Row Ends Tomorrow
Rogue Energy
iHeartPodcasts
3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
On Thursday April 30th, the state of Florida is set to finally execute 70-year-old James Ernest Hitchcock. Hitchcock was just 20 when he raped, beat and strangled 13-year-old Cynthia Driggers to death. After decades of appeals and having his death sentence overturned three times, Driggers’ family is relieved that their legal nightmare is finally coming to an end.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, folks. It is Wednesday, April 29th. |
| 0:10.5 | And this week, a man is scheduled to die by lethal injection for a crime he committed in 1976. |
| 0:20.2 | Yes, this man has been on death row for 50 years. |
| 0:25.2 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:29.1 | We're used to hearing 20, even 30 years. |
| 0:32.1 | Every once in a while, you throw in a 40 here and there. |
| 0:35.0 | 50 is mind-boggling. It is mind-boggling when you think that James |
| 0:41.6 | Ernest Hitchcock was 20 years old when he committed the act and he was convicted a year |
| 0:49.3 | later for raping and murdering his 13-year-old step-niece. |
| 0:55.1 | This is a horrific story. |
| 0:57.1 | So, yes, he is now 70 years old. |
| 1:00.8 | And it's pretty remarkable. |
| 1:02.5 | Little Cynthia Driggers, she went by Cindy. |
| 1:05.3 | Cindy Trigger's mom, she's still alive. |
| 1:08.0 | She's 81. |
| 1:09.1 | Because she was taken at such a young age, her mom has lived to see |
| 1:13.8 | the day that she actually can find peace. And she wants this to happen. She wants justice for her daughter. |
| 1:22.1 | This James Ernest Hitchcock execution is going to be taking place in Florida. It's going to be taking place tomorrow, scheduled for 6 o'clock Eastern Time there in Florida by lethal injection. Robes is one of two that we'll have on that night in the United States. The other in Texas. We'll get into that one in another episode, but we'll stay focused on this one in Ro Role is a big part of this. We'll get into |
| 1:44.2 | the crime, but a big part of this is why, in God's name, has a family been waiting for 50 |
| 1:48.5 | years for what the government told them is the justice is deserved for their family member? |
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