14 February 2025 :
February 13, 2025 - Florida. James Ford, 64, White, was executed.
Ford was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m. ET following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison in Raiford. He was convicted in 1999 of the April 6, 1997 murders of Gregory Malnory, 25, and his wife Kimberly, 26.
It’s not clear from court records why these killings happened. Part of Ford’s defense was that he suffered from abuse as a child and became an alcoholic like his father,
Recently the Florida Supreme Court rejected claims that his IQ of about 65 at the time of the murders put him in an intellectually disabled category with a mental age then of about 14 — therefore ineligible for execution, court documents show.
Ford had nothing to say Thursday evening to about 25 witnesses present as he lay strapped on a gurney. But the Corrections Department said the inmate did write a message on paper that read: “Hugs Prayer Love!!! God bless everyone.”
At first, as the injection began, his chest began heaving and then, slowly, all movements ceased. A few minutes later a staffer shook him and yelled “Ford! Ford!” to see if he was still conscious. There was no response. The victims’ daughter, Maranda Malnory, was not present for Thursday’s execution
Ford’s execution was the first in Florida in 2025, the 106th since the state resumed executions in 1979, the 4th in the U.S. in 2025, and the No. 1611 since the U.S. resumed executions in 1977.
