James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, will be executed by lethal injection Thursday, April 30, for the 1976 murder of his 13-year-old stepniece, Cynthia Driggers, in Winter Garden.
Hitchcock had moved to Winter Garden July 1976 to live with his brother as a 20 year old fresh out of an Arkansas prison.
Two weeks later, he went out for drinks, smoked cannabis and then went back to his brother’s house…