The State of Florida is getting ready to execute Victor Jones on September 30 2025 for a double murder committed during a robbery
According to court documents Victor Jones would rob a business and in the process would stab Matilda Nestor and Jacob Nestor. Nestor was able to fire off a series of gunshots striking Jones in the head. Jones would be arrested at the scene with the Nestor’s possessions on him. The Nestor’s would die from their injuries
Victor Jones would be convicted and sentenced to death
Update – Victor Jones was executed on September 30 2025 by lethal injection
Victor Jones Execution News
Victor Tony Jones, 64, is scheduled to die Sept. 30. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant the day after the state carried out the year’s 11th execution, with the 12th slated for Sept. 17.
A man who fatally stabbed a married couple during a robbery is set to be executed in Florida under a death warrant signed Friday by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The state already has put to death more people this year than ever since the death penalty was restored nearly 50 years ago.
Victor Tony Jones, 64, is scheduled to die Sept. 30 in what would be the state’s 13th execution scheduled for this year. DeSantis signed the order Friday, a day after Curtis Windom was executed for the 1992 murders of three people in Winter Park.
Another man, David Pittman, is scheduled to die Sept. 17 for fatally stabbing his estranged wife’s sister and parents and then set fire to their Mulberry home in 1990.
Pittman’s attorneys appealed to the Florida Supreme Court on Friday to halt the lethal injection after a Polk County judge on Wednesday rejected the claim that Pittman has an intellectual disability.
Jones was convicted and sentenced to death in 1993 on two counts of first-degree murder. Jurors also found him guilty of two counts of armed robbery.
Jones was a new employee at a Miami-Dade business owned by Matilda and Jacob Nestor in December 1990 when he stabbed the wife in the neck and the husband in the chest. Investigators determined that before he died from his wounds Jacob Nestor managed to retreat to an office. He pulled a .22 caliber pistol from a holster and fired five times, striking Jones once in the forehead.
Police found Jones wounded at the scene with the Nestors’ money and personal property in his pockets.
The state Supreme Court is scheduled to hear an appeal, and an appeal will also likely be filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.
The highest previous annual total of recent Florida executions is eight in 2014, since the death penalty was restored in 1976 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Florida has executed 11 people this year, more than any other state, ahead of Texas and South Carolina which have each executed four people.
A total of 30 people have been executed so far this year in the U.S., exceeding the 25 executions carried out last year. The most recent year with more executions for the entire U.S. was 2014, when 35 people were put to death.
In addition to Windom, Florida inmates executed this year were Kayle Bates on Aug. 19; Edward Zakrzewski on July 31; Michael Bell on July 15; Thomas Gudinas on June 24; Anthony Wainwright on June 10; Glen Rogers on May 15; Jeffrey Hutchinson on May 1; Michael Tanzi on April 8; Edward James on March 20; and James Ford on Feb. 13.
Victor Jones Execution September 30 2025
A man convicted of killing a married couple during a robbery in South Florida in 1990 was put to death Tuesday in a record 13th execution this year in the state.
Victor Tony Jones, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. Jones’ death extended Florida’s record for total executions in a single year, with the state planning to carry out two more executions next month.
The curtain to the viewing room opened promptly at the scheduled 6 p.m. start of the procedure. Asked if he had any final statement, Jone said, “No, sir.” Then, just two minutes after the curtains opened, the drugs began flowing. His chest began to heave for a few minutes, then slowed and stopped completely.
The warden shook Jones and shouted his name several minutes into the injection, but there was no response. Jones’ face lost color as he lay motionless, and a medic eventually entered the death chamber and declared him dead minutes later. Officials said the execution was carried out without complications.
Jones was a new employee at a Miami-Dade business owned by Matilda and Jacob Nestor in December 1990 when he stabbed the woman in the neck and her husband in the chest, court records show. Investigators determined that despite his wounds, Jacob Nestor managed to retreat to an office, unholster a .22 caliber pistol and fire five times, striking Jones once in the forehead.
Police said they found Jones wounded at the scene with the Nestors’ money and personal property in his pockets. Jones was hospitalized and later convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in 1993 and sentenced to death. The jury also found him guilty of two counts of armed robbery.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, the highest previous annual total of Florida executions was eight in 2014. Florida has executed more people than any other state this year, followed by Texas with five.
Jones filed an appeal with the Florida Supreme Court earlier this month, based on intellectual disability and alleged abuse he suffered as a teen at a since shuttered state-run reform school. The court denied the claims, finding that the disability issue had already been litigated and that allegations of abuse were never presented during Jones’ trial.
Hours before the execution, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final appeal without comment.
With Tuesday’s execution, a total of 34 men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and at least eight other people are scheduled to be put to death during the rest of 2025.
Barring legal reprieves, two more executions loom next month under death warrants signed by the Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Samuel Lee Smithers, 72, is scheduled to become the 14th person executed in Florida on Oct. 14. He was convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond in 1996.
Norman Mearle Grim Jr., 65, is scheduled for the state’s 15th execution on Oct. 28. He was convicted of raping and killing his neighbor, whose body was found by a fisherman near the Pensacola Bay Bridge in 1998.
Florida executions are carried out with three drugs: a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart, according to the state Department of Corrections
