Clear & Convincing-Season 4 Episode 17: State of Arkansas v. Jack Harold Jones, Jr.
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Clear & Convincing-Season 4 Episode 17: State of Arkansas v. Jack Harold Jones, Jr.
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In April, 2017, Governor Asa Hutchins set execution dates for eight men on Arkansas death row. The primary reason for the governor’s decision was that each of the inmates had exhausted their state and federal post-conviction remedies. In the media, the sole reason given was that the state’s supply of lethal injection drugs was about to expire. Jack Harold Jones, Jr. was one of those inmates. Jones was convicted and sentenced to death for the June 6, 1995 brutal rape, beating and strangulation of 34-year old Mary Phillips and the brutal beating of her 11-year old daughter, Lacy. We’ll talk about the case against Jones, his trial, direct appeal and post-conviction process. We’ll also talk about the prior murders committed by Jones, who was eventually linked to victims via cold case DNA hits. Finally, we’ll discuss the controversy surrounding the multiple execution dates set by Governor Hutchison and Jones’ posthumous confession to a third woman’s murder in Broward County, Florida and the exoneration of Ronald Stewart, who pled guilty to the murder committed by Jones to avoid the death penalty.