{"id":254085,"date":"2021-05-20T04:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T01:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/texas-executes-quintin-jones-for-killing-his-great-aunt-in-1999\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T04:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T01:07:39","slug":"texas-executes-quintin-jones-for-killing-his-great-aunt-in-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/texas-executes-quintin-jones-for-killing-his-great-aunt-in-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"#Texas executes Quintin Jones for killing his great aunt in 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Texas executes Quintin Jones for killing his great aunt in 1999<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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HUNTSVILLE, Texas \u2014 A Texas man convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt more than two decades ago was executed Wednesday evening, despite requests from some of the victim\u2019s family to spare his life.<\/p>\n

Quintin Jones received the lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the September 1999 killing of Berthena Bryant. Prosecutors said after Bryant refused to lend Jones money, he beat her with a bat in her Forth Worth home then took $30 from her purse to buy drugs.<\/p>\n

Reporters from The Associated Press and The Huntsville Item, the local news<\/a>paper, were scheduled as media<\/a> witnesses to the punishment but never were escorted by corrections agency officials from an office across the street from the prison. There was no immediate explanation for the media exclusion. Jones became the 571st inmate to receive lethal injection in Texas since the state resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982 and the first without a media witness.<\/p>\n

Typically, the agency\u2019s public information office receives a call from the prison warden\u2019s office that all app<\/a>eals have been exhausted, the execution is about to move forward and the media witnesses may be brought in. On Wednesday evening, that call never was made.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to halt the 41-year-old man\u2019s execution.<\/p>\n

Some of Bryant\u2019s family members, including her sister Mattie Long, had said they didn\u2019t want Jones to be executed. Jones is Long\u2019s grandnephew.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I was so close to Bert, her death hurt me a lot. Even so, God is merciful. Quintin can\u2019t bring her back. I can\u2019t bring her back. I am writing this to ask you to please spare Quintin\u2019s life,\u201d Long wrote in a letter that was part of Jones\u2019 clemency petition with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.<\/p>\n

The board denied Jones\u2019 clemency petition on Tuesday and Gov. Greg Abbott didn\u2019t go against that decision and also declined to delay the execution. Abbott has granted clemency to\u00a0only one death row inmate, Thomas Whitaker, since taking office in 2015.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Jones\u2019 attorney filed a civil rights complaint against the board, alleging race played \u201can impermissible role\u201d in its denial of Jones\u2019 petition. Jones\u2019 attorney argued the case was similar to that of Whitaker\u2019s and the only difference was that Whitaker is white and Jones was Black. U.S. District Judge George C. Hanks Jr. dismissed the complaint, writing that Jones didn\u2019t present direct evidence of his allegation.<\/p>\n

Helena Faulkner, a Tarrant County assistant criminal district attorney whose office prosecuted Jones, said not all of Bryant\u2019s family members had opposed the execution.<\/p>\n

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In his final appeals, Jones\u2019 attorney, Michael Mowla, argued that Jones was intellectually disabled and that his death sentence was based on since discredited testimony that wrongly labeled him as a psychopath and a future danger. Mowla also said Jones\u2019 history of drug and alcohol abuse that started at age 12 and physical and sexual abuse he suffered were never considered at his trial.<\/p>\n

Jones was the first inmate in Texas to receive a lethal injection since the July 8 execution of\u00a0Billy Joe Wardlow. Four other executions had been set for earlier this year but were either delayed or rescheduled. While Texas is usually the nation\u2019s busiest death penalty state,\u00a0in 2020 it executed only three inmates<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the fewest executions in nearly 25 years, mainly because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Jones had asked for his death sentence to be commuted to life in prison, saying he was not the same person who killed his great-aunt when he was 20 years old, and had expressed remorse and sought redemption during his more than two decades on death row.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0video published by the New York Times<\/a>, Jones asked Abbott to grant him clemency, saying he would use the rest of his life in prison \u201cto better myself and to better others along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother thing that helped me out was my great-aunt, Aunt Mattie. It was her sister. So, by her loving me enough to forgive me, it gave me the strength to try to do better and want to do better,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

In court documents filed last week, prosecutors argued the death sentence was justified because Jones had a violent history, including assaulting teachers and participating in two other murders.<\/p>\n

Suleika Jaouad, a writer who began corresponding with Jones a decade ago, led the effort to stop his execution. Others who supported Jones\u2019 clemency request included actors Mandy Patinkin and Sarah Paulson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a nation that prides itself on second chances. Quin is clear-eyed that he deserves to be in prison for the rest of his life. He hasn\u2019t forgotten his crime, and he\u2019s not asking us to forgive or to forget. But he is seeking redemption,\u201d Jaouad wrote in a Facebook post last week.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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