Prison

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.m. Around 25 people witnessed the execution and Ford had no final statement, according to The Associated Press.

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Police said Friday they arrested a 50-year-old Gainesville man accused of vandalizing the Chabad Jewish Student Center on the University of Florida campus…