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    Brandon Astor Jones - Georgia Execution - February 3, 2016


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    Was sentenced to death in October 1979 in Cobb County. On June 17, 1979, he and Van Roosevelt Solomon were arrested at a service station after an officer who just happened to drive up heard gunshots. In the storeroom, the officer found 29-year-old Roger Tackett, the station manager, who had been shot in the legs and arms and beaten before the fatal contact shot was fired behind his left ear.

    Van Roosevelt Solomon was also sentenced to death. He was executed on February 20, 1985.

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    On May 8, 2009, Jones filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/geo...v01228/158818/

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    Georgia death row’s oldest member loses appeal

    The federal appeals court in Atlanta on Thursday upheld the death sentence against the oldest member of Georgia’s death row.

    Brandon Astor Jones, 71, stands convicted for the killing of Roger Tackett, the manager of a Tenneco convenience store in Cobb County during a robbery on June 16, 1979. Jones was sentenced to death at a trial held that same year, but a federal judge later granted him a new sentencing trial because jurors had improperly been allowed to bring a Bible into the deliberation room. Jones was re-sentenced to death during a second trial in 1997.

    http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/g...-appeal/nfH3J/
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    On December 1, 2014, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit DENIED Jones' petition for en banc rehearing.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/14-1312.htm

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Jones' petition for certiorari.

    Docketed: May 4, 2015
    Linked with 14A860
    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    Case Nos.: (11-14774)
    Decision Date: March 20, 2014
    Rehearing Denied: December 1, 2014

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/14-1312.htm

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    Justices let stand death sentence for 72-year-old Georgian

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    WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from the oldest inmate on Georgia's death row.

    The justices left in place the death sentence for Brandon Astor Jones, 72, who was convicted of killing a convenience store clerk in suburban Atlanta in 1979. A divided Georgia Supreme Court and the federal appeals court in Atlanta previously upheld Jones' death sentence.

    Jones was convicted of killing Roger Tackett, the manager of a Tenneco convenience store in Cobb County, during a robbery.

    A federal judge later granted Jones a new sentencing trial because jurors had improperly been allowed to bring a Bible into the deliberation room. Jones was resentenced to death during a 1997 trial.

    According to evidence at his trial, Jones and Van Roosevelt Solomon were arrested at the scene by a Cobb County policeman who was driving a stranded motorist to the convenience store to use a pay phone. The officer drew his weapon and entered the store after hearing four shots inside the building. He encountered Jones and Solomon just inside the door.

    Tests showed each man had recently fired a gun or handled a recently fired gun. The cash drawer had been removed and was found wrapped in a plastic bag.

    Solomon, who was also convicted and sentenced to death, was executed in Georgia's electric chair in February 1985.

    The case is Jones v. GDCP Warden, 13-1312.

    http://www.kansascity.com/news/gover...e37779567.html

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    Execution date set for February 2nd

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    Georgia to execute its oldest death row inmate next month

    ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia plans to execute its oldest death row inmate next month, the state’s attorney general announced Wednesday.

    Brandon Astor Jones, 72, is scheduled to be put to death Feb. 2 at the state prison in Jackson, the office of Attorney General Sam Olens said in a news release. Jones was convicted of killing Roger Tackett, the manager of a Tenneco convenience store in Cobb County, during a robbery in 1979.

    A federal judge later ordered a new sentencing hearing for Jones because jurors had improperly been allowed to bring a Bible into the deliberation room. Jones was resentenced to death in 1997.

    The U.S. Supreme Court in October rejected an appeal from Jones. A divided Georgia Supreme Court and the federal appeals court in Atlanta had previously upheld his death sentence.

    According to evidence at his trial, Jones and Van Roosevelt Solomon were arrested at the scene by a Cobb County policeman who had driven a stranded motorist to the convenience store to use a pay phone at around 1:45 a.m. on June 17, 1979. The officer knew the store usually closed at midnight and was suspicious when he saw a car out front with the driver’s side door open and lights still on inside the store.

    Through the front window, he saw Jones stick his head out of the storeroom door at the back of the store and look around before closing the door, prosecutors have said. The officer entered the store and drew his weapon after hearing four shots.

    He yelled, “Police, come on out,” and approached the storeroom when no one responded. He found Jones and Solomon just inside the storeroom door and took them into custody, prosecutors have said.

    Tests showed each man had recently fired a gun or handled a recently fired gun. The cash drawer had been removed and was found wrapped in a plastic bag.

    Solomon, who was also convicted and sentenced to death, was executed in Georgia’s electric chair in February 1985.

    http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-w...te-next-month/
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    Back in 2008 Jones believed that he was going to be executed so he wrote this.

    Brandon Astor Jones writes what may be his ‘last will and testament’ from death row in the US state of Georgia.

    Bitter Crop

    ‘I heard Strange Fruit for the first time as a teenager when a girlfriend brought over a Billie Holiday album… I remember hearing these words: “Blood on the leaves, blood at the root…” It was too much. I pulled the needle off the record before it was done. I thought: “My God, I don’t want to hear that.”’

    The song stylist Francine Reed, who said these words, was referring to her own rendition of the timeless Abel Meeropol composition. The lyrics of the song give visual clarity to the aftermath of racist mob violence.

    There are those, I am sure, who would argue that the visual lynching conjured up by the song is not at all like judicial death penalties being carried out by various governments. I, along with thousands of others around the world, beg to differ.

    I am under sentence of death here in the American Southland. Over a period of many years I have stretched and tested the limits of the so-called ‘appeals process’. I am very likely to be killed in the near, as opposed to the distant, future. When New Internationalist gave me leave to write whatever I chose about the death penalty, I decided to take an unusual approach. I respectfully request that the reader absorb this more as my last will and testament than a mere essay.

    A judicial execution of an African-American, here in the State of Georgia, is little more than a lynching carried out by the state rather than a bloodthirsty mob rampaging through the streets.

    Not for the wealthy

    The death penalty is about race and class. There are few, if any, rich people on death row in America. When three wealthy young White men at Duke University were accused of sexually assaulting a Black woman, disbarment and criminal proceedings were started against the prosecutor. Less than a year later all three young men were cleared of the charges against them, without having to spend that time in prison.

    On the other side of America’s judicial coin, more than a hundred men (and at least one woman) have been maliciously and illegally prosecuted. Some were forced to spend 10, 15, 20, even more years in prison (some on death row) before they were proven innocent. None of the prosecutors has been subjected even to a reprimand. I will ask the question, since no-one else has: why not? The answer is that those who were prosecuted had one thing in common – Black, White or Brown, they were all poor. PERIOD.

    Americans of every stripe have by and large been church-mouse-quiet about this kind of prosecution. What I find especially sad is that here in Georgia the most disturbing silence comes from some of the local anti-death-penalty activists. When I hear of good caring people making large monetary donations to such activists, I feel angry. If this feeling could be set to music of my choice, it would be to Horace Silver’s Song for my Father. The piano introduction would serve as a balm and calm-container for my anger.

    I write about certain favourite pieces of music to soothe my weary spirit in this musically deprived environment. I am not allowed to hear the poignant song stylings of the late Billie Holiday. So I write of my memories in an effort to maintain my sanity and humanity. Madness here on death row is always lurking just around the next emotional corner. Keeping it at bay is a moment-to-moment struggle.

    The comforts of reason

    In the same way that I am imagining being able to hear certain pieces of music that give the comforts of reason to my spirit, many racists in America are using the hangman’s noose to carry out imaginary death sentences on African-Americans.

    The hangman’s noose is a difficult symbol to erase in America. In the past few months it has been employed in Jena, Louisiana, on the branches of the so-called ‘white tree’; then again at the University of Maryland; then at a police station in Hempstead, New York; again in Anniston, Alabama, at the US Army depot there; then at Grambling State University; and one was recently found hanging from the doorknob of a Black professor’s office at Colombia University.

    Little wonder that it is so hard for much of America to free itself from the archaic and barbaric use of the death penalty. Alas, it is woven into the psychic fabric of the nation’s racists.

    Some readers may wonder why I want to end this essay with the words of Strange Fruit, written in 1939 by a New Yorker. Truth be told, I want you to have a visceral reaction to the vision the words conjure up. You see, I hope to remind you that the death penalty is deeply rooted in the desire to terrorize and enrage not only its victims, but also the compassionless citizen-mob that helps to carry it out.

    No-one in their right mind would want to be either.

    Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood on the root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

    Pastoral scene of the gallant South, The bulging eyes and twisted mouth, Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh, And the sudden smell of burning flesh!

    Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop, Here is a strange and bitter crop.


    http://newint.org/features/2008/01/01/death-penalty/
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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