Florida inmate who received reparations for abuse at reform school faces execution

TALLAHASSEE — Less than three months ago, Victor Jones was among more than 900 men who received apologies from Florida officials and checks for $21,000 as reparations for the horrific abuse they endured as children at state-run reform schools .

On Sept. 30, Jones is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection for the 1990 murders of a couple in Miami-Dade County. He would be the third former student at the notorious reform schools to be executed in little more than a year.

Jones’ attorneys, along with other advocates, are arguing in court that the 64-year-old Death Row inmate should be spared execution, in part, because of the “life-altering trauma” resulting from his four stints as a teenager at the now-shuttered Okeechobee School in South Florida.

Beatings, rapes, solitary co