Florida executes convicted murderer, child rapist by lethal injection after SCOTUS denies appeals
A Florida man convicted in the brutal 1993 killings of an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother was executed by lethal injection on Thursday after the Supreme Court denied his appeals. Edward James, 63, was pronounced dead at 8:15 p.m. at a Florida State Prison near the city of Starke. Before he was executed, he said…