Capital punishment : TRIAL SET FOR DAD CHARGED WITH KILLING 5 KIDS
A dad who police said executed his five youthful kids in their South Carolina home and afterward drove their bodies around for over seven days is going to stand preliminary for his life.
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Jury determination is set to start Monday in Lexington County in capital punishment instance of Timothy Jones Jr.
Jones is accused of five tallies of homicide for slaughtering his kids, ages 8, 7, 6, 2 and 1, in their Lexington home in August 2014. Prosecutions said he choked four of them and beat the other.
Jones at that point enveloped the bodies by plastic sacks, place them in the back of his SUV and drove around the Southeast for seven days, logging in excess of 700 miles (1,125 kilometers) through North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama lastly Mississippi where he was captured, experts said
Well into the excursion, Jones covered his kids on a rustic slope close Camden, Alabama, police said.
When he was captured at an intoxicated driving checkpoint in Smith County, Mississippi, an officer smelled an awful scent and discovered blood, worms and kids' garments in the SUV, experts said.
Jones' legal advisors have documented court papers saying he designs a craziness guard. Jury determination will probably take most, if not this week.
Jones, 37, was a product engineer and was given guardianship of his youngsters after his marriage began to self-destruct.
The PC engineer battled as a single parent, as indicated by records from the Department of Social Services, whose representatives visited the home multiple times in three years.
Be that as it may, Jones likewise attempted to address the issues as social specialists discovered them. There were treks to Disney World and the shoreline and a birthday party with cupcakes definite in those records alongside a blemish on one of the kids and a report they were made to practice unreasonably as discipline.
"Father gives off an impression of being overpowered as he is unfit to keep up the home, yet the kids seem, by all accounts, to be spotless, prepared and suitably dressed," composed the case manager, name's identity passed out, in a report documented two weeks before police said the kids were executed.
The preliminary could take the vast majority of May. On the off chance that members of the jury discover Jones blameworthy of homicide, a similar jury will at that point hear declaration about whether he ought to be condemned to life in jail or capital punishment.
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