Florida executes Victor Tony Jones for 1990 murders, 13th this year

Victor Tony Jones, 64, was executed Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison near Starke for the 1990 murders of a married couple during a robbery, marking the 13th execution carried out in Florida this year. Jones was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. after a lethal injection, the governor's office said. The state plans two more executions next month.

Court records show Jones, who had recently begun working at a Miami business owned by Matilda and Jacob Nestor, stabbed the woman in the neck and her husband in the chest during a December 1990 robbery. Investigators determined that despite being wounded, Jacob Nestor retreated to an office, drew a .22 caliber pistol and fired five times, striking Jones once in the forehead. Police said Jones was found wounded at the scene with the Nestors' money and personal property in his pockets and was hospitalized.

Jones was convicted in 1993 of two counts of first degree murder and two counts of armed robbery and was sentenced to death. He filed appeals in recent weeks raising claims of intellectual disability and alleging abuse he suffered as a teenager at a now-closed state-run reform school. The Florida Supreme Court denied those claims,...