STARK, FL– A Florida A man who admitted killing his girlfriend’s infant daughter and dumping her body in a pond three decades ago is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday evening.
Andrew Richard Lockhart, 53, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at the Florida State Prison near Stark. He was sentenced to death after being convicted of first-degree murder and child abuse in 1997 for the death of 5-month-old Gabrielle Hanshaw a year earlier.
This will be Florida’s eighth execution so far this year 19 executions recorded in 2025 Republican governor Ron DeSantis He oversaw more executions in a single year in 2025 than any other Florida governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The previous record was set in 2014 with eight executions.
According to court records, Lockhart was watching his girlfriend’s child in February 1996 while his girlfriend was caring for her older daughter, who was sick. At some point, the friend said Lockhart moved away from her Jacksonville home and was unable to find baby Gabrielle. Lockhart called his girlfriend about 30 minutes later and asked her to call the police because the child had been kidnapped and he was chasing the kidnapper.
Later that evening, Lockhart was found in a nearby county after driving his car off the road. During questioning the next day, Lockhart told investigators that Gabrielle died after he dropped the baby on her head and then shook her. He told police that he panicked and threw the child into the pond. Law enforcement officers searched the pond and found the child’s body.
The Florida Supreme Court rejected Lockhart’s appeals last week. His lawyers claimed the medication he was taking for kidney disease could have had an adverse reaction with lethal injection drugs. They also argued that only one month between the signing of Lockhart’s death warrant and the execution deprived him of due process.
The US Supreme Court rejected Lockhart’s final appeal on Monday.
A total of 47 people They were executed in the United States in 2025. Florida led the way with a series of death warrants signed by DeSantis. Alabama, South Carolina and Texas tied for second with five executions each.
Another execution is scheduled to be carried out in Florida later this month. Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, was convicted of stabbing his wife to death in 1992.
All executions in Florida are carried out by lethal injection of a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart, according to the Department of Corrections.