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Man convicted of killing married couple becomes 13th person executed in Florida this year
['Associated Press']
News – NBC 6 South Florida
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, the office of Gov.
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.
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 executions are carried out with a three-drug injection: a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart, according to the state Department of Corrections.