THE NEXT MAN TO BE EXECUTED IN THE UNITED STATES

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:03][snorts] >> What's happening everybody? Welcome to the channel. I appreciate you tuning in.

[00:00:09]If you've been here before, welcome back. If you've never been here, I served 17 years as a prisoner in the New York state prison system. We speak about jail, we speak about the prison system, the criminal justice system, some stories from my crazy life, but we also follow some criminal cases. I did a case I did a video last week about someone being put to death in the state of Florida in the prison called Raiford or Union Correctional Facility, okay? And uh they're about the state of Florida is about to kill someone again. The state of Florida is about to give the lethal injection to somebody else on June 2nd.

[00:00:50]And I wanted to do a video about this guy as well. Um in the comment section from my last video, I would have to say that 99% of the people were satisfied that this person was put to death.

[00:01:05]In the comment section, there was a few people that were anti-death penalty, not many.

[00:01:11]Maybe three or four people uh were against the death penalty uh even in this case. And most of those people were against the death penalty because they felt that it was better the person suffered in prison for a long time. And we'll discuss that in a minute. But as I said, 99% of people were satisfied that he was put to death.

[00:01:33]And even people that were against the death penalty stated in the comment section, I am against the death penalty, but not in this case.

[00:01:44]That's the last video.

[00:01:46]So, I bring that up to say if you were against the death penalty in that case, if you were pro, if you were pro death penalty in that case, you're going to be pro death penalty in this case because this one fits the bill right here.

[00:02:02]You know, I always say if anyone should be put to death, it's this guy. This is another one of those cases.

[00:02:08]The state of Florida right now is on track to break their record from last year, 2025.

[00:02:15]I think the state of Florida led the nation, they did lead the nation, the entire country in putting people to death. I think last year they put to death 19 people.

[00:02:25]And right now, I think this is the eighth person in 2026 that will be put to death.

[00:02:31]Death row's in Raiford prison.

[00:02:34]Uh uh I believe it's in Stark, Florida.

[00:02:37]It's really called Union Correctional Facility, but that's where they uh house death row inmates right there.

[00:02:44]Um Governor Ron DeSantis is uh he's like a gangster. He's not playing, you know?

[00:02:51]Um so let me get right to this case. Oh uh first let me let me explain something about the death penalty to you, right?

[00:02:59]Yes, I'm pro death penalty.

[00:03:02]And I was incarcerated for taking a man's life.

[00:03:07]So a lot of people will say, "Yo, how come uh you took someone's life? Maybe you should be put to death then."

[00:03:14]When someone makes that statement, it only tells me that they're not too bright.

[00:03:19]It only tells me that they really not a thinker. You follow me?

[00:03:23]Because just because someone took someone's life there are underlying circumstances to every case.

[00:03:31]Okay? And not all case all cases, criminal cases warrant being put to death.

[00:03:39]I was 24 years old.

[00:03:41]I was under the influence of narcotics.

[00:03:44]I was in a fight with another 24-year-old man that was under the influence of narcotics.

[00:03:50]And I'm not saying that I was completely justified in in in making this the reality that I took someone's life.

[00:03:59]I'm not saying I was justified in it, but I'm saying there are as again there's underlinings. If two guys are in a bar and one guy punches another guy in the head and he falls down cracks his head open and dies, do you think that guy should face the death penalty that punched him? He didn't intend to kill him. He didn't plan to kill him. It wasn't premeditated. Right? So there's circumstances in every case. This is a case where I looked at the circumstances.

[00:04:25]And I believe this guy should face the death penalty. So let's get into who he is, right? His name is Andrew Richard Lucaut. Okay? He was 22 years old.

[00:04:37]That's a picture of him right there.

[00:04:39]That's that's Lucaut, Andrew Lucaut.

[00:04:43]He was 22 years old in 1996 when this crime happened.

[00:04:49]He was sentenced the year later in 1997 to die.

[00:04:55]This means he's been on death row for 31 years because he's now 53 years old.

[00:05:02]And so people say many people in the comment section also say, "Oh, why did he sit on there so long? You should just kill them right away."

[00:05:10]There's definitely some truth to that.

[00:05:12]31 years, the taxpayer paying for 31 years after they said that the guy should be put to death. 31 years is a long time. They should be able to handle the all all three appeals, right? Which is the state appeal, the federal appeal, and appeal to the Supreme Court. All that should be done within 10 years. I would say that's fair. You should be able to do all three of those appeals within 10 years and then after 10 years if he loses all three of those appeals, put him down like a dog. Right? And he did lose the appeal system. Let me explain to you a little bit the way the appeal system works. Death penalty cases are automatically appealed.

[00:05:48]And it's free of charge. You don't pay for the appeal. All death penalty cases in the United States, free appeal. And the way the appellate the the appeal system works is first you appeal to the state that you were convicted in. So, he's in the state of Florida, so his attorneys automatically appeals attorneys automatically appeal to the state and try and get the conviction overturned based on whatever excuses they use in the appeal.

[00:06:16]If the state shoots them down, then it goes to the federal the federal government. And they apply an appeal to the federal court system.

[00:06:26]The federal court system will view the case.

[00:06:29]And if they shoot it down, then it goes to the Supreme Court.

[00:06:34]And the Supreme Court looks at it. If the Supreme Court shoots it down, then you've exhausted all of your appeal options.

[00:06:42]And time to say goodbye.

[00:06:45]Right? So, that's the way it works. But in this case, they kept him on death row for 31 years. Right? What I say to you to give you some relief is that whether you believe in the death penalty or don't believe in the death penalty, he suffered for those 31 years.

[00:07:06]So, you say keep people say keep him on death row to suffer. He should suffer.

[00:07:10]Don't put him to death. Let him suffer.

[00:07:13]He's suffering twice.

[00:07:15]He suffered for 31 years on death row.

[00:07:19]And now he's going to suffer and be put to death. So, they're doing both to him.

[00:07:23]All right? So, you think of it that way.

[00:07:24]It's not like he was living life for 31 years. He was in death row. He was in Raiford prison on death row. He was confined to his cell for 23 hours a day for the past 31 years.

[00:07:37]He was allowed a very limited common commissary buy. He was allowed out for 60 minutes a day.

[00:07:43]And that's only for recreation. 1 hour a day if he wants to come out alone.

[00:07:49]Okay?

[00:07:50]And he's allowed to have a 12-in television in his cell. Some of the guys don't even have one.

[00:07:56]And that's what he did for 31 years. He was in his cell for 23 hours a day.

[00:08:02]So, believe me, it's I've been solitary confinement for years.

[00:08:07]It's torture.

[00:08:09]He was tortured.

[00:08:11]And now he's going to be tortured again.

[00:08:13]Uh the state of Florida uses lethal injection.

[00:08:17]They also still have the electric chair.

[00:08:20]If your crime was committed before certain year, the prisoner can request to be put to death by the electric chair in the state of Florida, what they call Old Sparky. They call it Old Sparky in a lot of states.

[00:08:32]Right? And so, he I don't know if he had that option. I forget what year uh your crime had to be committed in, before what year. But anyway, he's getting a lethal injection. He is 53 years old.

[00:08:44]And uh as I said, this will be the eighth person this year in this the state of Florida is putting down. Um he's from Jacksonville, Florida. The it's scheduled for June 2nd, 6:00 p.m. Ron DeSantis has signed the death warrant already.

[00:08:59]And so, at 6:00 p.m. on June 2nd, he's going to be put to death.

[00:09:04]Um let me tell you what he did.

[00:09:08]And then you'll understand why this guy needs to be put down like a dog.

[00:09:13]He was trying to change the diaper on his girlfriend's daughter, who was 5 months old. 5 months old. The girlfriend left, I believe, for work, and he was with the baby.

[00:09:29]The autopsy report said he punched the baby at least five times in the back of the skull.

[00:09:37]Slammed her face down into the bed and was squeezing her neck.

[00:09:44]The baby's name was Gabriel Hanshaw.

[00:09:48]5 months old.

[00:09:50]There's a picture of Gabriel.

[00:09:54]And then he took this baby's lifeless body and he threw it in a pond.

[00:10:01]He called his girlfriend and said somebody came and took the baby. He fabricated a story. And then he was in the middle of a car chase chasing the car and some crazy story.

[00:10:11]The police put the helicopters in the air. They got the search dogs. They came up cuz they believed the baby had been kidnapped. But he finally confessed and he led the police to where the body was and they pulled her body out of the pond.

[00:10:27]Now, can you say the first thing I said to myself was, there's no justification for that.

[00:10:33]He brutally beat a 5-month-old baby.

[00:10:37]I don't even like to think of this. I really it bothers me to think of it.

[00:10:41]Right? But then I said to myself, did he freak out that the baby was crying and he couldn't get the baby to sit still and he's trying to change the diaper? Is it like some type of stress like a mother has stress when she gives birth to a baby and she freaks out afterwards and post postpartum depression and all this even though I didn't I wasn't giving him that leeway, but I'm wondering did the baby just drive him so crazy crying and wouldn't sit still? No.

[00:11:07]That's not what happened.

[00:11:08]You know how I know that's not what happened?

[00:11:11]Because he was on probation for doing it to his last girlfriend's baby.

[00:11:16]Yeah. His last girlfriend's baby, he broke the baby's ribs, fractured the eye socket, and uh did something else to her. I had Yeah.

[00:11:28]Crazy. Yeah, so he He on probation for doing this before.

[00:11:33]I mean this guy, so again, he was found guilty.

[00:11:37]He lost all his appeals. He's sentenced to death.

[00:11:40]And uh this guy needs to be put down.

[00:11:46]They're trying to say, right? They're trying to say that they shouldn't put him to death because he has severe health conditions of his own.

[00:11:56]That he has chronic kidney disease and diabetes. And if they put the chemicals in him for the lethal injection, they may not work so fast because of his kidney disease, and that's cruel and unusual punishment.

[00:12:07]And so he shouldn't be put to death.

[00:12:09]That's their excuse.

[00:12:11]Are they kidding me?

[00:12:13]If anyone needs to go down, it is this guy right now.

[00:12:17]Governor Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant today for a Jacksonville man convicted of killing a 5-month-old baby and throwing her body into a pond.

[00:12:24]>> Andrew Luke Hart was arrested back in 1996 and is scheduled to be the eighth person executed in Florida this year. News for Jax anchor Tarik Minor is here. I was looking through our archive coverage of this case, Tarik.

[00:12:38]>> And you know, this was a story that no one really could believe when it happened here in Jacksonville back in 1996. A man who killed a 5-month-old baby while changing her diaper.

[00:12:50]Did you kill the baby, Mr. Luke Hart?

[00:12:51]It's a question everyone in Jacksonville was asking up until the arrest of 22-year-old Andrew Luke Hart, who initially reported 5-month-old Gabriel Handshaw missing to authorities.

[00:13:03]>> The toddler was his girlfriend's daughter. And according to police, while changing the baby's diaper, she wouldn't lie flat. So Luke Hart forcefully and repeatedly pushed her head and neck to the floor. 30 minutes after the crime, Luke Hart reported the child missing, claiming he was following a suspect in his car. Police weren't buying that story for long. Using helicopters and divers, police searched for the body in a pond up until Luke Hart led detectives to this wooded area off Chaffee Road.

[00:13:29]Lucart would later admit that he killed his girlfriend's daughter, taking the stand in his own defense during the trial. He told jurors he struck the child with such force the baby stopped breathing.

[00:13:40]>> I got scared and I started to panic.

[00:13:43]And I ran outside and threw the diaper away and jumped in the car and started up and left. I felt bad.

[00:13:51]I felt guilty. The jury deliberated for only an hour and a half before finding Lucart guilty.

[00:13:56]>> By a vote of 9 to 3, advise and recommend to the court that it impose the death penalty upon Andrew Richard Lucart.

[00:14:04]>> no emotion from him in the court but hysteria from his family as his mother ran out of the courtroom screaming.

[00:14:10]>> Do you want the death penalty for Andrew Lucart? Yes.

[00:14:16]Why is that?

[00:14:17]He killed my baby. Anything you'd like to say about this verdict?

[00:14:24]What about the next phase? Are you worried about getting the death penalty?

[00:14:27]Nope. No, I'm not scared.

[00:14:30]Why not?

[00:14:32]I'm right with God, that's why.

[00:14:36]Lucart's execution date is scheduled for June the 2nd at 6:00 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Raiford. It would be the ninth death warrant signed by the governor this year after a record 19 executions last year in 2025 here in Florida. Joy.

[00:14:51]As as it gets closer to the date of June 2nd, maybe I'll make a note for myself on June 2nd, I will do a countdown to this guy's death because we need to cleanse the earth of people like this, of Andrew Richard Lucart.

[00:15:10]Yeah, we need to cleanse the earth of people like him.

[00:15:13]You know, I'm always very curious uh on how people feel about the death penalty and what their argument is. You know, why do you feel a guy like this should be permitted to live when he kills a defenseless child? When he kills a 5-month-old in diapers, he has a history of doing of abusing children before. Why would you feel that this guy should just not be put to death?

[00:15:44]There are some crimes where you should face the death penalty. I think that if you kill a pregnant woman um with zero justification, this is a possible I don't just say a death penalty case because there's circumstances against every case. But I think if you kill a pregnant woman, you should possibly face the death penalty.

[00:16:06]I think if you kill anyone under the age of 12, it should possibly be a death penalty case. Possibly, look at the circumstances.

[00:16:16]I think if you kill police officers, this should be a possible death penalty case. There are some crimes where in order to keep society civilized, you must put people to death.

[00:16:36]Because if you allow people in society to commit certain crimes like the ones I just mentioned.

[00:16:43]Now, people say, "Well, it does the death penalty doesn't deter crime."

[00:16:48]Someone in the comments made that argument in the last video. Well, I happen to I happen to let you know that there's been studies done and the death penalty does not deter crime. So, stop the death penalty.

[00:17:04]The death penalty is not designed to deter crime for your information.

[00:17:09]The death penalty is used to punish people who commit certain crimes. It's not to deter crime.

[00:17:20]You guys let me know what you think and uh I'll keep you posted. I got a good prison story coming up for you. It's probably going to be tomorrow or the day after. Hit the subscribe button. Check out my membership program so you could see special videos, so you can get shout-outs, so you can get uh emojis next to your name, so you could uh support Mr. Joe Fish and his channel.

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