Tim Jones Jr. should die for killing his 5 children, a jury decided last week.
It took less than 2 hours for 12 Lexington County jurors to condemn him to death Thursday, June 13.
Jones appeared expressionless but swayed slightly from side to side.
His father bowed his head in tears as his wife held him. 
His family cried.
Judge Eugene C. Griffith Jr. sentenced Jones to die Nov. 30, 2019, between 6 pm and 6 am by electrocution or lethal injection, whichever Jones requests.
An automatic death penalty appeal is required.
“These 5 little kids finally got justice,” 11th Circuit Solicitor Rick Hubbard said.
Timothy Ray Jones Jr. was convicted last week of  murdering his 5 children — Merah, 8; Elias, 7; Nahtahn, 6; Gabriel, 2 and Elaine Abigail, 1 — in their Red Bank home in August 2014.
He admitted strangling Merah and Elias with his hands and Gabriel and Elaine Abigail with a belt. 
After sealing their bodies in black plastic bags and driving them throughout the Southeast for 9 days, he dumped them off a logging road in Alabama.
“The punishment has to fit the crime,” Hubbard told the jury. “Isn’t (Jones) the worst of the worst? A man who brutally murdered his 5 children?”
To sentence Jones to death, SC law requires aggravating circumstances, Hubbard told them.
This case meets 2 of those circumstances: that 2 or more are murdered in one act and that someone 11 or under is murdered.
The jury found both.
“What kind of man is Tim Jones?” Hubbard asked. “He is a mass murderer.
“He chose himself over them and they paid with their lives.”