Mark Allen Geralds, 58, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison for the February 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.

"There are people whom the (prison) system works for. Wayne is one of those people," his attorney said. Nichols is scheduled to be executed Dec. 11.