Bonita Springs is a Florida city in Lee County, with about 53,000 residents. It is currently in the news due to Florida's plan to execute the 14th inmate this year, following a case involving a 16-year-old girl who rejected a suspect’s advances.
Harold Gene Lucas, 74, is set to be executed at Florida State Prison near Starke at 6 p.m. He received a death sentence multiple times for the 1976 murder of Jill Piper and the wounding of two friends. The governor has signed two more death warrants for September, keeping Florida at the forefront of the year’s executions.