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Florida sets execution date for man who fatally stabbed woman during home invasion robbery
Mark Allen Geralds faces execution for a 1989 Panama City home invasion killing after multiple appeals and resentencing by Florida courts.
- On Tuesday, Mark Allen Geralds was executed at Florida State Prison and pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. after a three-drug injection for the Feb. 1, 1989, murder of Tressa Pettibone.
- Geralds was convicted of murder, armed robbery, burglary and grand theft auto and sentenced to death; the Florida Supreme Court vacated the sentence but affirmed the conviction, and Geralds was resentenced to death.
- Court records show Pettibone's 8-year-old son found her beaten and stabbed on the Panama City home kitchen floor, while investigators linked Geralds through pawned jewelry and matching plastic ties.
- After a death warrant was signed last month, Geralds told a judge he would not pursue more appeals, the judge signed off, and on Tuesday Geralds awoke at 5:45 a.m., declined a last meal and had no visitors.
- Florida has executed more people than any other state this year, surpassing its previous high of eight executions in a single year.
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Florida sets execution date for man who fatally stabbed woman during home invasion robbery
A man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman during home invasion robbery is scheduled to be put to death in December. Republican Gov.
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