Cole's journey to the death chamber began in the Ocala National Forest. There, on Feb. 18, 1994, Edwards and his sister were on a weekend camping trip. Cole, 27 at the time, helped them set up camp.

Back in February 1994, Loran Cole brutally murdered 18-year-old John Edwards and raped his older sister Pam while the pair were on a camping trip in the Ocala National Forest, Florida.

Back in February 1994, Loran Cole brutally murdered 18-year-old John Edwards and raped his older sister Pam while the pair were on a camping trip in the Ocala National Forest, Florida.

The state of Florida on Thursday executed Loran Cole, a 57-year-old Florida man who contended that lethal injection would cause him “needless pain and suffering” due to his Parkinson’s disease. The ...

Thirty years ago, Cole and another man named William Paul befriended Edwards and his sister Pam while they were on a camping trip in Florida's Ocala National Forest, according to court records.

On Feb. 18, 1994, Cole, then 27, and William Paul, then 20, encountered Florida State University student John Edwards, 18, and his older sister while they were setting up for a weekend camping ...

Florida State student John Edwards was found brutally murdered with a slit throat and fractures to the skull. Cole was convicted of repeatedly raping Edwards’ sister and then abandoning her in ...