Pointing to medical problems including “cognitive decline,” an attorney for condemned killer Edward James is arguing that executing him next month would violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The attorney, Dawn Macready, filed a motion Sunday in Seminole County circuit court seeking to halt the scheduled March 20 execution of James in the 1993 murders of a woman and her 8-year-old granddaughter.
The motion said James had served much of the past three decades in solitary confinement and suffered “physical and mental deterioration” after a near-fatal heart attack in 2023…