Judge Dawn Nichols sentenced Jermaine Williams to death for killing Yolonda Williams in Bunnell.

Monday's order is the death sentence after a July guilty verdict and an 11-1 jury recommendation. The outlets do not print the same age, the same middle name, or the same spelling of her first name. They also do not put the stabbing in the same place: a street, a driveway, and an address are three descriptions of one scene. The appeals FlaglerLive described are the next record. They are not a new trial.

FlaglerLive reported Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, that Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols sentenced Jermaine Williams to death for murdering his wife, Yolonda Williams, and that the hearing took about three minutes. The site reported Nichols walked in at 2:27 p.m., waited until 2:30 p.m., and finished at 2:33 p.m. It reported she read, "Jermaine Mandel Williams Sr. is hereby sentenced to death for the murder of Yolonda Williams," and that he shall be transported to the Department of Corrections and held on death row until the sentence is carried out. It reported he is 55 and is responsible for statutory fees and costs. News4Jax reported the same judge sentenced Jermaine Mandell Williams Sr. to death Monday. Mandel and Mandell are not the same spelling. First Coast News reported a Flagler County judge sentenced Jermaine Williams Sr. and did not print a middle name or the judge's name. The Daytona Beach News-Journal's published lead used Jermaine Williams Sr. and did not print a middle name.

The July verdict is the finding the sentence sits on. News4Jax reported Williams was convicted of first-degree murder in July, that jurors deliberated about 20 minutes before the guilty verdict, and that they later voted 11-1 to recommend death. First Coast News reported a jury recommended death 11-1 in July after finding him guilty of first-degree murder. FlaglerLive reported eleven of twelve jurors recommended death. News4Jax reported State Attorney R.J. Larizza said prosecutors would pursue the death penalty after that recommendation. First Coast News printed a Monday statement from his office: "The video footage shows a chilling and merciless killing. The defendant stabbed his wife 20 times while their 14-year-old son watched," and, "Only the defendant's father - armed with a gun - was able to stop the brutal attack. There can be no quarter, no sympathy and no doubt that the death penalty was the only choice in this case." A July recommendation and a Monday statement are not the same sentence. The 14-year-old is not named in those accounts.

The accounts of Aug. 2, 2024, do not use one scene or one count of the wounds. The News-Journal's lead said Williams stabbed his 50-year-old wife outside their home at 408 S. Pine St. at about 8:12 a.m. First Coast News reported the Flagler County Sheriff's Office responded shortly after 8 a.m. to a stabbing on South Pine Street, that deputies found her in the driveway, and that prosecutors said she was stabbed 19 to 20 times and later died at a hospital. It reported the State Attorney's Office said surveillance video showed Williams entering the home and returning with an 8-inch knife, and that his father, who lived nearby, held him at gunpoint until deputies took him into custody. News4Jax reported the attack was in the street, that the knife was an 8-inch chef's knife, and that she was stabbed 19 to 20 times and later died at a hospital. It reported a 14-year-old son witnessed the attack and tried to intervene, and that Williams's father held him at gunpoint until he stepped away from his wife. FlaglerLive reported the killing was on a Bunnell street, in front of one of their children. First Coast News's headline and one sentence spelled her Yolanda. Its quotation of the Bunnell Police Department spelled her Yolonda, and so did News4Jax, FlaglerLive, and the News-Journal. News4Jax added a middle name for her, Charmaine, that the others did not print. The street, the driveway, and 408 S. Pine St. are three ways of placing one attack. Nineteen to 20, and the office's "20 times," are two counts of the same wounds. The child is not named here.

What he told investigators is the prosecution's account of a statement, not a new fact found on Monday. News4Jax reported prosecutors said he told detectives he got the knife from the kitchen and stabbed her, and that a comment she made "pushed him over the edge." First Coast News reported prosecutors said he told investigators an argument "pushed him over the edge" and made him feel he "had nothing else to live for." Both reported he was on probation in a 2022 domestic-violence case involving his wife. First Coast News reported that, at the time of that earlier case, she told investigators he had abused her for more than 30 years and that she had been afraid to call police because she feared he would kill her. That is what First Coast News reported she told investigators. News4Jax's age of 34 and a reported span of more than 30 years are both in print. This story does not pick an age. FlaglerLive reported defense lawyers Junior Barrett and Anthony Eric Leonard were with him, that prosecutors Jason Lewis and Helen Schwartz were at the state's table, and that an Aug. 26 Spencer hearing lasted about 10 minutes, with a three-page letter he did not read aloud. It reported Lewis told her family afterward that the appeals were just beginning. It reported the last person sentenced to death for a Flagler County murder was Louis Gaskin, convicted in 1990 and executed in 2023, and that Williams is now the only person on death row for a Flagler County murder. Monday's order is the sentence on the July verdict. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.