They stay where they are at until the district attorney figures out what to do with them, and that includes his thread on the TDCJ death row website. If they decide to take Jones to trial again, then he stays at Polunsky or the county jail until the trial is over, depending on the time proximity to the trial. If he is re-sentenced to death, then he is booked out of the county jail after the trial, goes back to Polunsky, and his page on the TDCJ death row website remains. If he is sentenced to life or commuted, then his thread will be taken off the TDCJ death row page and will be posted on the 'no longer on death row' page. As for that dull time from the grant of habeas relief to re-trial, by law he will remain at Polunsky, which also includes his death row thread on the death row website. On a further note, the state is in charge of that website, so they will not update its pages (including the scheduled executions list and offenders executed pages) until they get the correct paperwork and command to do so. It's not like the private sites that are constantly updated, such as this one.
Jones KNOWS that he will get re-sentenced to death again, so he probably planned that fair-trial appeal to last as long as he could. To further make my point, the former district attorney of Harris County, Mike Anderson, who died a few years ago of cancer, was a strong believer in capital punishment for cop-killers. The succeeding district attorney, Devon Anderson (his wife), is no different, and she is as adamant as he was, if not more, about dishing out the death penalty for cop killers. It goes to show then, how desperate Jones is about this.
Regardless of the outcome, the district court now once AGAIN has to consider this slop and will then AGAIN get sent back to the 5th Circuit regardless of that result. Until then, a re-trial is quite a ways off.
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