STOP the Execution of Victor T. Jones

Florida intends to execute Victor T. Jones on September 30, 2025 for the 1990 murders of Matilda and Jacob Nestor.

We oppose this execution as we do every execution. Capital punishment is an act of state sanctioned violence that violates the sacred dignity of every human life. In the words of Saint Pope John Paul II, “The dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil.” 

Victor’s case highlights a few of the many systemic failures of the Florida system of capital punishment. He continues to have unresolved questions of fairness, after bringing forward claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, intellectual disability, and unrepresented mitigating evidence. Even more, one of Victor’s sentences was the result of a non-unanimous jury vote (10-2). Florida remains an outlier in its willingness to execute people after divided jury recommendations, despite U.S. Supreme Court precedent exposing flaws in the state’s sentencing scheme.

If Victor’s execution is carried out (in addition to David Pittman’s scheduled execution on Sept. 17) it would mark the 13th in an unprecedented spree of executions in Florida this year, which has now far exceeded the number of executions in the state in any year previously since the reinstatement of the death penalty.

Contact Gov. DeSantis and the Florida Board of Executive Clemency  to support clemency for Victor T. Jones.