Edward Thomas James, 63, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday for the brutal 1993 murders of 58-year-old Elizabeth "Betty" Dick and her 8-year-old granddaughter, Toni Neuner, who was raped.

Prison officials said Edward James, 63 ... a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart. Earlier this year, James Ford was executed for the 1997 killings of a couple in Charlotte County ...