Overview
- The Florida Department of Corrections said Geralds, 58, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. EST at Florida State Prison in Raiford following a three-drug lethal injection.
- The execution was Florida’s 18th this year, the most of any state, with another execution scheduled for Dec. 18 for Frank Athen Walls.
- After a death warrant was signed last month, Geralds told a judge he would not pursue further appeals, and the court approved his waiver.
- Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty said Geralds abandoned appeals despite unresolved legal and forensic issues and asserted he had "lost the will to fight."
- Geralds was convicted in the 1989 killing of Tressa Lynn Pettibone, with evidence including pawned jewelry bearing her blood and plastic ties matching those used to bind her; his original death sentence was vacated before he was resentenced to death in the early 1990s.