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

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.

 

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