Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant Tuesday for Edward James, who more than three decades ago raped and strangled an 8-year-old girl then fatally stabbed her grandmother in a Casselberry home.

A man will soon be put to death for a 1993 double murder in Seminole County. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant Tuesday for Edward James. Investigators said he killed a woman and her granddaughter after a night of drinking. He was renting a room from the woman. James pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder.