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Florida man executed for raping and murdering girl, 8, and stabbing her gran 21 times

Edward James was put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Raiford on Thursday, more than three decades after he raped and murdered eight-year-old Toni Neuner before killing her grandmother

Edward James (left) was convicted of raping and murdering 8-year-old Toni Neuner and then killing her grandmother Betty Dick, 58, in 1993

A Florida man, found guilty of raping and murdering eight year old Toni Neuner before killing her grandmother, has been executed more than three decades after the crime.

Edward James, 63, had his death warrant signed by Governor Ron DeSantis last month and was put to death by lethal injection. He died just after 8pm ET on Thursday, March 20 at the Florida State Prison in Raiford, there was a roughly two-hour delay in the execution, which prison officials didn't immediately explain.

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James died roughly nine hours after Wendell Arden Grissom's execution in Oklahoma for a home-invasion murder. It also comes two days after Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman by nitrogen gas on Tuesday and a day after Arizona put Aaron Gunches to death by lethal injection on Wednesday.

James received the death penalty for the 1993 killings of eight year old