PRESS RELEASE
On July 16, 2026, the Florida Supreme Court affirmed the denial of Tina Lasonya Brown’s successive post-conviction motion, ending her latest effort to receive a new sentencing hearing.
Brown was tried and convicted in 2012 by Assistant State Attorney Bridgette M. Jensen for first-degree murder in the brutal March 2010 murder of 19-year-old Audreanna Zimmerman. Zimmerman was stunned with a taser, beaten, and then set on fire. She managed to walk nearly a third of a mile to seek help but died two weeks later from her thermal injuries.
Brown is currently the only woman on Death Row in Florida’s Department of Corrections.
For further information, please contact the State Attorney’s Office at 850-595-4200.
