James Dennis Ford, 64, was executed on Thursday for the brutal slaying of a mother and father while their toddler daughter watched in 1997 at a remote sod farm in southwest Florida

A Florida man executed on Thursday for the brutal slaying of a mother and father while their toddler watched on had little to say before he was put to death just after 6 p.m. at the Florida State Prison.

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in front of the couple's toddler has received a lethal injection in the state's first execution of the year.