Murder of John Edwards

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On February 18, 1994, a brother–sister pair was attacked by two men at a camping site in Ocala National Forest, Florida, United States. The attackers raped 21-year-old Pam Edwards twice and murdered her 18-year-old brother, John Timothy Edwards. Later that month, the two killers, William Christopher Paul and Loran Kenstley Cole, were arrested and charged with kidnapping, robbery, rape, and murder. Paul pleaded guilty to the murder, kidnapping, and robbery charges, a decision that ultimately spared him the death sentence, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Cole, who was deemed to have played a bigger role in the murder, was sentenced to death after a state jury found him guilty of murdering Edwards and other charges that include the rape of Edwards's sister. Cole was executed by lethal injection on August 29, 2024, at the Florida State Prison in Raiford, Florida.

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