Florida execute convicted murderer, children’s rapist Edward James

A Florida man Condemned by the brutal slaughter of 1993 to an 8 -year -old girl and her grandmother was executed by lethal injection on Thursday after the Supreme Court denied her call.

Edward James, 63, was declared dead at 20:15 in a Florida state prison near Starke’s city. Before he was executed, he said he did not want to make a final statement, according to Associated Press.

A jury voted 11-1 to condemn James to death after declaring himself guilty of September 19, 1993, murders of Toni Neuner, 8, and his grandmother, Betty Dick, 58.

James’ final appeals to his execution were denied by the US Supreme Court On Thursday, which allowed his death sentence to advance.

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Edward James, 63, was executed on Thursday by Florida’s state for Toni Neuner’s 1993 murders, 8, and his grandmother, Betty Dick, 58. (Florida correction department)

When the attack took place, James had been renting a room in Dick’s house, which was about 10 kilometers North of Orlando. Neuner and three other children were at home on the night of the fatal attack, although the other three children were not harmed.

Before returning to his room in the house, court records showed that James drank up to 24 beers and a little liquor, and took LSD.

Neuner was violated and strangled until death, while Dick was stabbed 21 times. After killing -Les James stole the jewelry of women and his car, then drove the country to Bakersfield, California, where he was arrested on October 6, 1993.

James admitted the two crimes during a confession recorded with the police.

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Several appeals arguing that James had cognitive issues that should be protected from the execution were presented to the state and federal courts, but they were all denied.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Florida He rejected an argument from James’ lawyers that his drug and alcohol consumption combined with head injuries and a heart attack by 2023 caused a « mental decline » that would make execution cruel and unusual punishment.

Edward James died from lethal injection after Florida authorities managed the cocktail of three state medicines. (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution Via AP)

In the denial, the justice coincided with the decision of a lower court, which stated that Cognitive issues did not protect James from his death sentence. James’ lawyers also sought to argue that the heart attack he experienced in prison led to an oxygen deprivation that affected his brain, which should have been a reason to stop execution plans, but the court also denied it.

In Florida, the inmates of the row of death that choose the lethal injection receive a cocktail of three medicines consisting of a sedative, a paralytic and a heart drug, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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James’ execution marked the second at the Sunshine State this year as James Ford was executed in February The 1997 murders of a couple in Charlotte County in front of their youngest daughter, who survived.