Donovan L. Faison of Seminole County, Fla., was handed the death penalty Friday for “executing” his girlfriend, Kaylin Fiengo and their unborn child, three years ago

Florida jurors vote 11-1, in October recommending death penalty for Donovan Faison, 23, convicted of killing pregnant girlfriend Kaylin Fiengo, 18, for refusing abortion as he demanded

Faison, was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder, killing an unborn child and burglary

Fiengo was found shot dead in her car beside an ultrasound image on November 11, 2022, after she sent him the results of two positive pregnancy tests, to which he texted back, “Abortion!!!”

Faison “erupted” and felt “angry and pressured” because he was at the time, living with another woman who suspected him of cheating – prosecutors

Donovan L. Faison [right], was handed the death penalty on Friday Dec. 5, by a Florida judge for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend, Kaylin Fiengo [left], and her unborn child in November 2022

Following the recommendation of a Seminole County jury, a judge sentenced a 23-year-old man from Sanford, Florida to death for murdering his pregnant girlfriend “execution-style killing,” because she refused to get an abortion as he had demanded.
On Friday Dec 5, the judge officially sentenced Donovan L. Faison to die for the November 2022 murder of 18-year-old Kaylin Fiengo in Sanford, which is about 25 miles north of Orlando, the office of the State Attorney announced on December 6.
Ten months after the double-homicide, Faison was arrested in August 2023 and taken to jail.
He was convicted in October for first-degree murder, killing an unborn child and burglary. Jurors voted 11-1 in October recommending that Faison receive the death penalty

Pregnant Kaylin Fiengo, [photo], 18, was found shot to death in a car in November 2022, after she was lured by her boyfriend o a meeting at Coastline Park in Sanford, just north of Orlando, Fla. A murder which prosecutors described as “an execution-style killing”

Kaylin Fiengo, [photo], mother to a 1-year-old son, was at the end of her first trimester when she was killed, in Nov. 2022

At the sentencing hearing jurors heard from prosecutors that the murder, based on several aggravating factors, meets the threshold for capital punishment, including the fact the a child younger than 12 was killed while the defendant was committing the capital felony of killing the mother, “execution-style”.
“You may and should consider the cold, calculated, premeditated nature of this killing,” said prosecutor Stewart Stone.
“No words can capture the depth of pain that comes with losing your daughter to murder,” Fiengo’s mother, Sarah Schweickert, said in her victim impact statement before sentence was handed down.
“Every day I wake up and face a world that no longer has her smile, her laughter, her hugs. The grief never leaves – it sits in my chest like a weight that will never go away.”

In August 2023, ten months after the murder of pregnant teen Kaylin Fiengo, her boyfriend Donovan Faison, the father of her unborn child, was arrested and charged with two counts of felony homicide . The suspect was 21 at the time

During his murder trial prosecutors told the jury that Faison “erupted” in anger when Fiengo sent him a photo of two positive pregnancy tests.
“The defendant accused her of lying before sending her a text that said “Abortion!!!,” prosecutors said.
The dad-to-be “felt pressured” because he was living with another woman who suspected him of cheating.
Faison later texted a buddy: “On my brothers grave, I’m gonna crop her out.” The text messages proved his intent, prosecutor Domenick Leo said in closing arguments.
Sanford police were patrolling on Nov. 11, 2022, and saw a vehicle backed into a parking spot at Coastline Park, cops said at the time. An officer found Fiengo in the driver’s seat of the car, dead from a gunshot wound. Police later confirmed Fiengo was pregnant and had just completed her first trimester.
investigation, revealed that Fiengo went to the park the night to meet Faison.
The parents to be had been having multiple arguments about the pregnancy, before Faison lured her to the park and shot her dead.
In August 2023, 10 months after his girlfriend’s murder, 21-year-old Donovan Faison was taken into custody.

An ultrasound photo was found near the body of Kaylin Fiengo, police said. Prosecutors said her determination not to end the life of her child was the cause of her death

In addition to the unborn baby, Fiengo left behind a son who was just a year old at the time of her death. Her father told NBC affiliate WESH that she took her role as a mother very seriously.
During the penalty phase, the jury heard testimony from Fiengo’s mother, father, aunt and grandmother. They jury also heard testimony from the killer’s family, who asked for a life sentence instead of death.
In Florida, at least eight of 12 jurors must vote in favor of the death penalty after finding at least one aggravating factor – of which prosecutors provided many factors in the execution of the crime that met that requirement.