Jones v. State

Sears, Justice.

Brandon Astor Jones, also known as Wilbur May, was convicted of murder and sentenced to die in 1979.1 In 1989, his death sentence was vacated by a federal district court.2 A re-sentencing trial was held in 1997 and the jury recommended a death sentence after finding beyond a reasonable doubt that Jones committed the offense of murder while engaged in the commission of armed robbery and burglary and that the murder was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture to the victim before death.3 This is Jones’s appeal from the re-sentencing…