STARKE, Fla.—A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple’s toddler was put to death Thursday in the state’s first execution of the year.
James Dennis Ford, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison. He was convicted of the murders of Gregory Malnory, 25, and his wife Kimberly, 26. Both were killed during a 1997 fishing trip at a sod farm in southwest Florida’s Charlotte County where court records showed the two men worked.
