Kidney donor and recipient meet after a chance encounter online
Lisa Sorlie and Booker T. Williams are now bonded for life.
Sorlie, 53, lives in Wisconsin, while Williams, 41, resides in California. They were brought together two years ago, when Sorlie donated her kidney and Williams received it. Williams was diagnosed with kidney disease in 2014, a month after his dad died of kidney complications, and had been on the donor list for five years by the time he was matched with Sorlie. I didn t miss anything because of my health, and I want everybody to have that, she told
Good Morning America. I want them to be exhausted from chasing what matters to them.
Texas executes Quintin Jones for 1999 murder, says it forgot to let the media witness execution
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Texas executed Quintin Jones, 41, on Wednesday night, for the 1999 beating death of his great aunt, Berthena Bryant. He was pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m. at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The reporters waiting across the street to witness the execution were never called over and only learned of Jones death 30 minutes after he was pronounced dead,
AP and
Item reporter access to witness executions. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice can only apologize for this error and nothing like this will ever happen again, TDCJ spokesman Jeremy Desel told
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As Texas prepares to execute Quintin Jones for murdering his great aunt, supporters question if race played factor in clemency rejection
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Texas death row inmate Quintin Jones is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening. He was convicted of killing his great-aunt. Credit: Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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Texas is set to execute Quintin Jones on Wednesday evening for the murder of his great-aunt. His lawyer is arguing that Jones’ plea for clemency was rejected in part because he’s Black.
/ 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.