Mass killer guilty

Jury to decide if Jones should be executed

Posted 6/5/19

Tim Jones Jr. was found guilty Tuesday of murdering his 5 children.

A Lexington County jury is to begin hearing testimony Thursday morning whether the Red Bank father should be executed for his …

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Mass killer guilty

Jury to decide if Jones should be executed

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Tim Jones Jr. was found guilty Tuesday of murdering his 5 children.
A Lexington County jury is to begin hearing testimony Thursday morning whether the Red Bank father should be executed for his crimes.
Jones has been on trial more than 3 weeks for killing his 5 children —  Merah, 8; Elias, 7; Nahtahn, 6; Gabriel, 2 and Elaine Abigail, 1 — in their Red Bank home Aug. 28, 2014. He pleaded not guilty by insanity.
The jury did not believe his defense that he was insane when he killed his kids.
Jones told police he killed his children as an act of mercy out of fatherly love.
“Killing children out of love is insane,” Boyd Young said in closing the defense.
Prosecutor Rick Hubbard called it “pure, evil malice” referring to how he killed his children in revenge for his wife leaving him.
In Monday’s testimony, a rebuttal witness said she found Jones competent and sane according to her tests.
“He didn’t have a broken brain?” asked 11th Circuit Solicitor Rick Hubbard.
“Correct,” Kimberly Cruz, a neuro-psychologist said.
“This man doesn’t have schizophrenia?” he asked.
Hubbard was asking if Jones was faking symptoms.
“I can tell the differences,” she replied.
“He knew what he was doing that night,” Hubbard told the jury in the state’s closing argument.
One of the biggest issues for Jones’ defense was insanity and his drug use.
Testimony detailed use of alcohol, marijuana, LSD, ecstasy, cocaine and synthetic marijuana. The prosecution targeted synthetic marijuana as a reason for his guilt.
“Voluntary consumption of drugs is not a defense,” Hubbard told the jury.
“We’re seeking justice,” he said. “I have a unique role in speaking for the dead. They deserve justice.
“Justice is all I can do.”
Defense attorney Boyd Young replied in Jones’ defense, “Killing children you love is insane. He’s crazy. You can’t rationalize crazy.”
Jones was found guilty of strangling his children in 2014, driving their bodies throughout the Southeast for 9 days and then dumping them in rural Alabama.

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