Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this year.

He waited as his lawyers unsuccessfully submitted appeal after appeal to Florida’s higher courts. He waited for rulings on motions meant to turn his death sentences into lifetime confinement. After his appeals lapsed and his sentence stood,

According to court documents, Ford attacked Gregory Malnory after the group arrived to go fishing, shooting him in the head with a .22-caliber rifle, beating him with an axe-like blunt instrument and

James Dennis Ford, 64, was executed for the 1997 murders of Gregory and Kimberly Malnory, who were killed while on a fishing trip with their young daughter.