Florida man Victor Jones scheduled for execution
Victor Tony Jones, 64, who was convicted in 1993 of fatally stabbing a married couple during a 1990 robbery in South Florida, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke on Tuesday evening after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant. Jones was a new employee at the victims’ Miami‑Dade business when the killings occurred; his recent appeals—raising intellectual‑disability claims and allegations of past abuse at a state reform school—were rejected by the Florida Supreme Court and an emergency appeal was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.
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🔍 Key Facts
- Victor Tony Jones, 64, convicted in 1993 of two counts of first‑degree murder and two counts of armed robbery for a Dec. 1990 killing of Matilda and Jacob Nestor in Miami‑Dade.
- Execution method/time: three‑drug lethal injection to begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Florida State Prison near Starke; death warrant signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
- Context/numbers: Florida's 13th execution in 2025, extending the state's annual execution record (previous high was eight in 2014); appeals over intellectual disability and alleged reform‑school abuse were denied by state justices.