Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted in the 1990 murders of a couple in Miami-Dade County, as the state continues a record-setting year for executions.

Victor Tony Jones, 64, is scheduled to be executed Sept. 30 and could become the 13th inmate put to death by lethal injection this year in Florida. The Jones death warrant came after Curtis Windom was executed Thursday evening at Florida State Prison in the 1992 murders of three people in Orange County.

Jones was sentenced to death for murdering 66-year-old Matilda Nestor and 67-year-old Jacob Nestor at their business in December 1990, according to court documents.

“Evidence at trial established that Jones, who worked for the Nestors, stabbed Mrs. Nestor once to the base of her neck which severed her aor

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