The Case Against Jones

On February 21, 2001, Quintin Phillippe Jones was convicted of Capital Murder of his great aunt, Berthena Bryant, under Texas Penal Code Section 19.03(a).  During the penalty phase of Quin’s trial, the State presented the jury with a psychiatric assessment of Quin and expert testimony regarding his “future dangerousness.” 

After the jury answered the future dangerousness special issue question affirmatively, and found no grounds in mitigation of punishment, the Tarrant County District Court sentenced Quin to death by lethal injection. After exhaustion of Quin’s post-conviction legal proceedings, the Court issued a Death Warrant and set May 19, 2021 as the date for execution of Quin “by intravenous injection of substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death and until the said QUINTIN PHILLIPPE JONES is dead.”