/ Texas Tribune Texas death row inmate Quintin Jones is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening. He was convicted of killing his great-aunt.
Texas is set to execute Quintin Jones on Wednesday evening. If it proceeds, it will be the state’s first execution of the year and its second during the coronavirus pandemic, an unusual lull in the state with the busiest death chamber.
Jones, now 41, was sentenced to death in 2001 in Tarrant County after he beat his 83-year-old great-aunt, Berthena Bryant, to death with a baseball bat after she refused to lend him more money, according to court records. He said he was on drugs.
Texas death row inmate Quintin Jones set to be executed Wednesday night texastribune.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from texastribune.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.