Texas executes Quintin Jones for great-aunt's murder
Quintin Jones, 41, was pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m. local time nearly 12 minutes after receiving a lethal dose of pentobarbital at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. A Texas inmate convicted of beating his 83-year-old great aunt to death more than two decades ago was executed by lethal injection Wednesday evening.
His death ended a 10-month pause of executions in what's usually the nation’s busiest death penalty state. Still, media witnesses were not allowed to view the process due to a miscommunication between officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Media representatives from both The Associated Press and the Huntsville Item are normally guaranteed an opportunity to witness each execution, citing TDCJ policy.
"The Texas Department of Criminal Justice can only apologize for this error, and nothing like this will ever happen again," TDCJ Director of Communications Jeremy Diesel said. "We have much new personnel that are a part of the execution team who have not been a part of an execution in the past."Somewhere in that mix, there was never a phone call made to this office for me to accompany the witnesses across the street into the Huntsville Unit," he continued.
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