According to the AP agency, Jones was recognized as deceased at 18:13 (on Wednesday at 12.13 Polish time) after applying the injection with poison in a state prison near Starke. Asked if he had any last words, he answered: “Well, sir”.
Officials reported that the execution was without complications. In the last hours of his life, Jones met with a spiritual adviser and remained calm. His last meal consisted of chicken, Collard Greens and sweet tea.
According to court files, Jones was a new employee of the company in Miami-Dade belonging to Matilda and Jacob Nestors, when in December 1990 he stabbed a woman in his neck and her husband in his chest. Despite the wounds, Jacob Nestor managed to retreat to the office, remove the .22 caliber pistol and fired five shots, hitting Jones, among others on the forehead.
The police found a wounded man at the crime scene with money and personal things of victims in his pockets. He was hospitalized, and in 1993 he was sentenced to two first -degree murders and two assaults with weapons in his hand. He received a death sentence.
From the time the US Supreme Court was restored in 1976, the highest annual execution in Florida was eight – in 2014. In 2025, Florida lost more people than any other condition; Texas with five executions came second.
At the beginning of September, Jones appealed to the Supreme Court of Florida, citing intellectual disability and alleged abuse that he was to experience as a teenager in closed juvenile. The court rejected the arguments, considering that the issue of disability was already considered, and the allegations of abuse never appeared during the trial. A few hours before the execution, the United States Supreme Court rejected the final appeal without comment.
According to AP, with Tuesday execution in the USA in 2025, 34 men were already lost by law. By the end of the year, executions were announced at least eight more people.
