Jones received a lethal injection Wednesday night, more than 21 years after he killed Berthena Bryant.
Author: Juan A. Lozano and Michael Graczyk Associated Press
Published: 8:00 PM CDT May 19, 2021
Updated: 10:09 PM CDT May 19, 2021
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas inmate has been executed for beating his 83-year-old great aunt to death nearly 22 years ago.
Quintin Jones received a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for killing Berthena Bryant in 1999.
Some of Bryant’s relatives, including her sister Mattie Long, had asked that Jones be spared.
Prosecutors say Jones beat Bryant with a bat in her Fort Worth home after she refused to lend him money, and he took $30 from her purse to buy drugs.