Georgia Executes Its Oldest Death Row Inmate

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Image: Brandon Astor Jones 


Georgia executed its oldest death row inmate Tuesday, after courts rejected a challenge to a state law that keeps secret the names of providers of lethal injection drugs. 

Brandon Astor Jones, 72, was convicted in 1979 for the killing of a convenience store clerk
during an armed robbery. A judge ordered a new sentencing hearing in 1989 and he was later resentenced to death in 1997.

Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Gwendolyn Hogan confirmed that Jones was executed at 12:46 a.m. Wednesday. His execution had been scheduled for 7 p.m. but his lawyers filed filed a last-minute appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

The high court refused to halt the execution in an order made hours after that time had passed.
Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals voted 6-5 not to hear before a full court Jones' challenge of the state law that keeps secret the company that manufactures drugs used in lethal injections.

Comments

alexandra konwel said…
where will he start from. wicked people, wicked laws, wicked detectives, those who did that to him will not go unpunished,
05:07
stella ogbu said…
wow, couldnt they have forgiven him? 72 yrsold. cmon!
05:31
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