Tomorrow, Florida is scheduled to carry out its 13th execution this year. Barring a stay, Victor Jones, an intellectually disabled Black man who survived horrific abuse at the Okeechobee School for Boys, will be killed at 6 p.m. For decades, Florida officials dismissed Victor’s testimony of abuse as “not credible.” Prosecutors mocked him at trial,…
Victor Jones’ Fate Rests with the United States Supreme Court Late last week, the Florida Supreme Court refused to address the blatant misrepresentations made by Florida’s Attorney General in its death warrant filings. On Saturday, counsel for Victor Jones filed a petition for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court, urging the Court to stop…
Florida is preparing to carry out its record-breaking 13th execution this year – on Tuesday, September 30, Victor Jones is scheduled to be killed. Victor is an intellectually disabled Black man who survived horrific abuse at the Okeechobee School for boys. He was beaten with leather straps, called racist slurs, locked in solitary, and forced…
