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.
TEXAS inmate Quintin Jones was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday evening. He was 41.
The death row inmate was convicted of killing his great-aunt in 1999 when he was 20-years-old.
He beat his great-aunt Berthena Bryant, 83, to death and stole $30 to pay for drugs. He admitted to the crimes, and his family forgave him.
Jones great-aunt Mattie Long - the victim s sister - asked for his life to be spared. I love him very much, she told CBS News.
More than 170,000 people signed a Change.org petition asking Abbott to grant Jones clemency. He did not.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Jones petition for clemency, despite having granted it in a similar case three years ago for a white man.
Without media witnesses present, Texas executes inmate who killed great aunt
Without media witnesses present, Texas executes inmate who killed great aunt
‘The Texas Department of Criminal Justice can only apologize for this error and nothing like this will ever happen again, agency spokesman said after inmate pronounced dead in state’s first execution in nearly a year.
An inmate works outdoors on the hoe quad outside a modern-day Texas prison unit in Huntsville, Texas on Thursday, June 25, 2015. (Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News)(Staff Photographer)
12:48 PM on May 20, 2021 CDT
HUNTSVILLE A Texas man convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt more than two decades ago was executed Wednesday evening without media witnesses present because prison agency officials neglected to notify reporters it was time to carry out the punishment.
Updated 1 hour ago
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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 s family to spare his life.
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.
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Absent media, Texas executes inmate who killed great aunt
JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press
May 19, 2021
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1of3This undated handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Quintin Jones. Jones, convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt more than two decades earlier, was executed Wednesday, May 19, 2021, without media witnesses present because prison agency officials neglected to notify reporters it was time to carry out the punishment. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)APShow MoreShow Less
2of3This undated handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Quintin Jones. He is scheduled to die by injection Wednesday, May 19, 2021 for fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt more than 22 years ago. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)APShow MoreShow Less