August 22, 2007

Arkansas

Beebe sets execution date for Bald Knob killer

Arkansas News

LITTLE ROCK - Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday set an Oct. 16 execution date for
Jack Harold Jones Jr., who was sentenced to die in 1996 for killing a woman
in Bald Knob.

In a proclamation, Beebe said all of Jones' state and federal appeals have
been exhausted. The condemned killer is to die by injection.

Jones, 43, was convicted in White County Circuit Court of capital murder,
rape and criminal attempted capital murder in the June 1995 slaying of Mary
Phillips of Bradford.

The murder occurred at a bookkeeping and tax service in Bald Knob where
Phillips worked. Her 11-year-old daughter, who was at the business at the
time, was tied to a chair and beaten.

Jones' execution date is the second Beebe has set since taking office in
January.

Last month, the governor set a Sept. 18 execution for Terrick Terrell
Nooner, sentenced to die in the 1993 shooting death of a college student at
a Little Rock coin-operated laundry.

Last week, the state Parole Board held hearings on Nooner's request for
clemency, and on Monday the board recommended Beebe deny Nooner's request.

A spokesman for the governor said Tuesday that Beebe had not made a decision
on Nooner's clemency request.

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Source : Arkansas News

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