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Florida executes death row child killer over 1993 slaughter of girl, 8, and her grandmother

The state of Florida carried out the execution of a man convicted in the killing of an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother on a night in which he drank heavily and used drugs.

Edward James, 63, was executed by lethal injection at approximately 8:15 p.m. local time on Thursday at the Florida State Prison outside Starke under a death warrant signed in February by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The execution was the second this year in Florida, which is planning a third in April. He reportedly made no statement before the drugs started flowing.

The U.S. Supreme Court denied James’ final appeals without comment earlier Thursday.

Three other executions were scheduled this week around the United States: Louisiana put a man to death Tuesday using nitrogen gas for the first time as it resumed executions after a 15-year hiatus. Arizona on Wednesday lethally injected a man who had kidnapped and murdered his girlfriend’s ex-husband. Another man was executed by lethal injection Thursday in Oklahoma.

James was sentenced to death for the Sept. 19, 1993 killings of 8-year-old Toni Neuner and Betty Dick, 58, the child’s grandmother. James had been renting a room in Dick’s house in Casselberry. where Toni Neuner and three other children were also staying that night.

According to court records, James had drank