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Claude Jones' Other Shoe Drops

By Steve Hall

The Texas Observer has just posted its exclusive news article, "DNA Tests Undermine Evidence in Texas Execution:  New results show Claude Jones was put to death on flawed evidence."  It's written by Dave Mann. Here's an extended excerpt from the beginning of this must-read: Claude Jones always claimed that he wasn?t the man who walked into an East Texas liquor store in 1989 and shot the owner. He professed his innocence right up until the moment he was strapped to a gurney in the Texas execution chamber and put to death on Dec. 7, 2000. His murder conviction was based on a single piece of forensic evidence recovered from the crime scene?a strand of hair?that prosecutors claimed belonged to Jones. But DNA tests completed this week at the request of the Observer and the New York-based Innocence Project show the hair didn?t belong to Jones after all...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 11, 2010 (boomark / email).