Entries tagged with “Tim Jones, Jr.”
Policy Issues
Oct 03, 2019
Jurors Report Experiencing Continuing Trauma After Serving in South Carolina Death-Penalty Trial
Jurors in South Carolina report that they are experiencing profound psychological effects from their exposure to graphically violent images, testimony, and argument during the death-penalty trial of Tim Jones, Jr. (pictured). Three months after the June 13, 2019 conclusion of the penalty phase of a trial in which jurors sentenced Jones to death for killing his five young children, nine of the 18 Lexington County jurors and alternates from the case agreed to…