Episodes

On September 10, 2026, the State of Florida is scheduled to execute Daniel Owen Conahan Jr. for the kidnapping and murder of 21-year-old Richard Allen Montgomery. Thirty years later, Conahan maintains his innocence. This episode tells Richard’s story and the case that put Daniel Conahan on Florida’s death row. SOURCES Conahan v. State, 844 So. 2d 629 (Fla. 2003), Florida Supreme Court. Conahan v. State, 118 So. 3d 718 (Fla. 2013), Florida Supreme Court. Conahan v. State / Conahan v. Secreta...

Harold Gene Lucas was executed by the State of Florida on September 1, 2026, nearly 50 years after the murder of 16-year-old Anthia Jill Piper. In this short update to Episode 1 of Scheduled: An American Execution, Kayla follows the case through Lucas’s final day and execution at Florida State Prison, including his final statement, the lethal injection procedure, and what members of Jill Piper’s and Terri Rice’s families said afterward. For the full story of Jill Piper’s murder and the case tha...

On August 14, 1976, sixteen-year-old Anthia Jill Piper was killed outside her family’s home in Bonita Springs, Florida. Harold Gene Lucas was convicted of her murder and sentenced to death. What followed was a legal process that stretched across five decades, including multiple overturned death sentences, resentencing proceedings, and years of state and federal appeals. On September 1, 2026, Lucas is scheduled to be executed by the State of Florida. In the first episode of Scheduled: An Ameri...