Texas executes inmate without media witnesses present

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/texas-executions-lifestyle-747fc8994706df9dee9e64909c464b99

Absent media, Texas executes inmate who killed great aunt
By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt more than two decades ago was executed Wednesday evening without media witnesses present because prison agency officials neglected to notify reporters it was time to carry out the punishment.

Quintin Jones received the lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the September 1999 killing of Berthena Bryant, agency spokesman Jeremy Desel said about 30 minutes after Jones was pronounced dead.

Desel never received the usual phone call from the Huntsville Unit prison to bring reporters from The Associated Press and The Huntsville Item to the prison. He and the media witnesses were waiting in an office across the street.

“The Texas Department of Criminal Justice can only apologize for this error and nothing like this will ever happen again,” he said.

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Yeah, we just forgot

[Tommy Carcetti]

1. "Oops."

Fucking savagery.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. They like killing people....betting he was black. nt

[jaysunb]

3. Duh......nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Fuck this monstrous system.