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Additional News Coverage of Claude Jones Case

By Steve Hall

"Judge orders DNA testing for man executed in 2000," is the title of Cindy Horswell's report in today's Houston Chronicle.Claude ?Butch? Jones? last request before his execution just before Christmas 10 years ago was an emotional telephone call to his son in Houston who had never known his father until they were reunited on death row.The son, Duane Jones, now 49, remembers pointedly asking his father whether he had robbed and murdered the liquor store owner in San Jacinto County. ?I told him he had nothing to lose by telling the truth now,? Duane Jones said. ?But my father continued to remain adamant that he didn?t do it.?While the younger Jones, an associate engineer, thought his father was being truthful, he could never be certain ? but now that may change...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 16, 2010 (boomark / email).