James Dennis Ford, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison. He was convicted of the murders of Gregory Malnory, 25, and his wife, Kimberly, 26, who were killed during a 1997 fishing trip at a sod farm in southwest Charlotte County, where court records showed both men worked.

James D. Ford, who was convicted of murdering a young couple in 1999 in southwest Florida while their toddler looked on, was executed by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison on Thursday and pronounced dead at 6:19 p.

Florida executed James Dennis Ford for the savage murders of two young parents in front of their toddler daughter in 1997.