Sandy
05-19-2021, 10:37 PM
Family members of Quintin Jones, 41, had hoped that either the U.S. Supreme Court or Gov. Greg Abbott would spare his life or grant a last-minute reprieve. Neither came.
Jones was executed by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville and pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m., around 10 minutes after the lethal dose began, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.
The Fort Worth man was convicted of fatally beating his great-aunt, Berthena Bryant, in 1999 with a baseball bat and stealing $30 to buy drugs.
Jones, who was 19 at the time, did not deny committing the murder and wasn't asking to be released, but said he has turned his life around in prison and shouldn't be executed. In a video published by The New York Times last week, Jones asked Abbott to "find it in your heart to grant me clemency."
"I was so glad to leave this world a better, more positive place," he said. "It’s not an easy life with all the negativities."
I don't consider what it did a crime (thinking of what it did actually made me laugh), but keeping it in NU saved innocent humans' lives.
The nigger was partially right, though. One less nigger in the world does make it a better place.
Jones was executed by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville and pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m., around 10 minutes after the lethal dose began, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.
The Fort Worth man was convicted of fatally beating his great-aunt, Berthena Bryant, in 1999 with a baseball bat and stealing $30 to buy drugs.
Jones, who was 19 at the time, did not deny committing the murder and wasn't asking to be released, but said he has turned his life around in prison and shouldn't be executed. In a video published by The New York Times last week, Jones asked Abbott to "find it in your heart to grant me clemency."
"I was so glad to leave this world a better, more positive place," he said. "It’s not an easy life with all the negativities."
I don't consider what it did a crime (thinking of what it did actually made me laugh), but keeping it in NU saved innocent humans' lives.
The nigger was partially right, though. One less nigger in the world does make it a better place.