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…
On September 30, the State of Florida plans to execute Victor Tony Jones, an intellectually disabled Black man who was brutally abused as a child at the Okeechobee School for Boys. He is part of the very group of survivors that the Florida Legislature formally recognized and compensated just last year through the Dozier and…
On August 29, 2025, Governor Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for Victor Tony Jones, scheduling his execution for September 30. Jones is an intellectually disabled Black man who was brutally abused as a child at the hands of the State of Florida while confined at the Okeechobee School for Boys. For decades, courts dismissed…
