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Click through to see the youngest inmates on death row and the crimes they committed. Michael Bargo - DOB: 4/29/1992 - Bargo was the mastermind behind the death of 15-year-old Seath Jackson in...
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Troy Victorino and Jerome Hunter were convicted for their roles in what is known as the “Xbox Murders” or the “Deltona Massacre.” Victorino in 2004 encouraged Hunter and two other men to break into a house in Deltona where they bludgeoned four men, two women and a dog to death. Victorino blamed one of the victims for having him evicted from a vacan...
At 24, Cruz also would have been, by far, the youngest inmate on Florida’s death row, the second largest in the nation. Florida corrections officials say that 30-year-old Michael Bargo is the youngest inmate who wears a telltale orange T-shirt, which are used to distinguish death row inmates from other prisoners. Bargo was the ring leader of a grou...
But younger men than Cruz have been executed. Four 16-year-olds boys, all Black, were given the ultimate punishment. Three of them were executed in the 1940s. One who was executed in 1927 became the first to die in an oak electric chair built in four years earlier by inmates. The death penalty was suspended in Florida in 1964 while the U.S. Supreme...
Florida has not had an execution since 2019, when Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered the deaths of two serial killers. Gary Ray Bowles, who killed six men along Interstate 95 from Florida to Maryland in 1994, was the last to be executed in Florida. DeSantis signed a third death warrant but that execution was stayed by a federal judge. The three-year lapse i...
Nationally, at the end of 2020, prisoners had spent an average of 19.4 years on death row. Those who were executed in 2020 had spent an average of 18.9 years, waiting for their sentences to be carried out, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. In Florida, the average age for a prisoner to be executed is 44.9 years — roughly 18 years after th...
Male inmates like Scott and Joseph are housed at either Florida State Prison or Union Correctional Institution, two prisons in Raiford. The three women on death row are held at the Lowell Annex in Lowell, north of Ocala. Inmates are housed in 6-foot-by-9-foot cells and allowed to shower every other day, state corrections officials said. Inmates are...
Home of the infamous "Old Sparky," Florida hasn't killed anyone in the electric chair since July 1999. Allen Lee Davis, convicted of beating to death a pregnant Jacksonville woman and fatally shooting her two young daughters, was the last person to die by electrocution in Florida. His nose bled severely and he suffered burns to his head, leg and gr...
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Dec 16, 2013 · The Ocala Star-Banner reports Bargo now becomes the youngest of Florida's 404 death row inmates. Prosecutors say Jackson was lured to the home where he was beaten, shot and tortured before...
Apr 10, 2019 · Michael Bargo, who at age 21 became the youngest person on Florida'a death row, will stay on death row after a jury unanimously recommended execution for a 2011 slaying of 15-year-old Seath...
Jan 3, 2023 · Seath Jackson, of Ocala, Florida, never made it to his 16th birthday. He was lured to a house of death in 2011 by his ex-girlfriend Amber Wright, and viciously ambushed by a group of boys, with their instigator murdering him in a brutal fit of rage — all before burning his body on a fire.
Sep 19, 2021 · The youngest people ever executed were 16-year-olds: one in 1927, two in 1941 and one in 1944. The oldest person ever executed was a 72-year-old in 1951. The person who spent the longest on...
May 25, 2019 · Youngest Death Row Inmate Benjamin Smiley, 26, born July 23, 1992, sentenced from Polk County. Note: Next youngest is Michael Bargo, sentenced from Marion County, who turned 27 on April 29.
