Fort Worth man who beat aunt to death for $30 scheduled to be executed on Wednesday
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 2 days ago Domingo Ramirez Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram
May 18 FORT WORTH A Fort Worth man who told a detective his alternate personality James killed his 83-year-old great-aunt for $30 in 1999 is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday.
Quintin Phillippe Jones, now 41, was convicted of murder in February 2001 and sentenced to die for killing and robbing 83-year-old Berthena Bryant.
A stay of execution was denied on May 12 by the Court of Criminal Appeals.
Attorneys for Jones, who has been on death row in Texas for more than 20 years, had filed the stay motion, saying his death sentence had been obtained by false and misleading scientific evidence, and that the Fort Worth man is intellectually disabled.
this week s gotcha is specially dedicated to the city leaders in jonesboro, georgia. just when you thought voter suppression couldn t get any more blatant, last month the nearly all white city council and its county board of elections moved to relocate the town s long polling place from a fire house museum to a police precinct citing issues of construction. and that may seem like a harmless change of location. but i wonder what they re doing and so is the aclu and civil rights groups in the state of georgia. jonesboro city manager ricky carl, jr., reportedly said