10 December 2025 :
December 10, 2025 - Florida. Mark Geralds, 58, White, was executed on December 10, 2025
Geralds was pronounced dead at 6.15pm following a three-drug injection at Florida state prison near Starke.
Asked if he had any last words, Geralds addressed someone by name, but the name was inaudible. He said: “I’m sorry that I missed you.” He then added: “I loved you every day.”
Once the drugs began flowing, he took about a dozen deep breaths. His body then quivered and twitched, his mouth opening and closing. Within three or four minutes, Geralds became still.
Gerald was sentenced to death in 1990 for the February 1, 1989 murder of Tressa Pettibone. The Florida supreme court later vacated the sentence but affirmed the conviction, and Geralds was resentenced to death in 1992. After a death warrant was signed last month and his execution date set, Geralds told a judge he did not wish to pursue any further appeals. The judge signed off on that decision.
The execution was the 18th in Florida this year, further extending the state record for total executions in a single year with one more planned next week.
Since the US supreme court restored the death penalty in 1976, the highest previous annual total of Florida executions was eight in 2014. Florida has executed more people than any other state this year. Another execution is planned next week in the state under death warrants signed by Republican governor Ron DeSantis.
Frank Athen Walls, 58, is scheduled for Florida’s 19th execution this year on 18 December.
Gerald becomes the 18th person executed this year in Florida, the 124th overall since Florida resumed capital punishment in 1979, the 45th person to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1,652nd overall since the nation resumed executions in 1977.
