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Taking Notice of Texas and Claude Jones

By Steve Hall

Today's Philadelphia Inquirer carries the editorial, "Kill the Death Penalty." The wrongful execution of a man in Texas is just the latest case that argues against the use of the death penalty. Claude Howard Jones was executed in December 2000 after being convicted of murdering a liquor store clerk during a robbery. Prosecutors argued that Jones shot the clerk using a gun owned by Timothy Jordan, while a third man waited in a pickup truck. Jordan testified against Jones and received a reduced sentence. The other key evidence used at trial to convict Jones involved hair samples collected by police at the crime scene. A chemist from the Texas Department of Public Safety testified that the hair fragments could have belonged to Jones...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 06, 2010 (boomark / email).