Entries tagged with “Tim Jones, Jr.”
Sep 04, 2025
Juror Trauma: The Added Cost of Capital Cases
When Chloe Beck was called for jury duty in early 2018, she initially viewed it as a potential break from work. But she did not anticipate that the case — involving a nanny charged with the stabbing deaths of two children — would have lasting effects on her mental health. As an alternate juror in the seven-week trial, Ms. Beck was required to look at crime scene photographs and hear testimony from the victims’ parents. For Ms. Beck, the experience proved difficult to…
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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…