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More on the Case of Claude Jones

By Steve Hall

AP reports, "DNA test may cast doubt on executed Texan's guilt," via Google News.  It's written by Jeff Carlton.  For those unfamiliar with the case, it's an excellent recap.Claude Jones may have been wrongly executed for the 1989 slaying of a liquor store owner in this aptly named Texas town, but no one says he's an angel.He was a lifelong criminal, with a rap sheet that included a murder conviction for setting fire to a fellow inmate in a Kansas prison. Two eyewitnesses and his accomplices placed him at the liquor store. And even one of Jones' attorneys says the defense had "a devil of a time finding a good character witness."But there are new questions 10 years after Jones was executed about whether he actually killed 44-year-old Allen Hilzendager while robbing the store, and whether the testimony used to convict him was enough...continue to full post

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