TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—A Florida man convicted of murdering a woman and raping and killing her 8-year-old-granddaughter in Seminole County in 1993 is set to be executed next month.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant for Edward James, 63, on Tuesday. James is scheduled to be executed on March 20 at Florida State Prison.
On Sept. 19, 1993, James brutally attacked 8-year-old Toni Neuner, who was staying at the home of her grandmother Betty Dick, before he murdered the 58-year-old woman as well. James had been renting a room in Dick’s home.
According to court records, James strangled Neuner before raping her vaginally and anally and then throwing her body across the room. The young girl suffered grievous internal injuries and was strangled to death….