Timothy Jones Jr., sentenced to death Thursday for killing his children aged 1 to 8 in their Lexington home, is only the third new admission to South Carolina’s death row in 10 years. The trend toward fewer executions and death row inmates but more life without parole sentences is reflected across the country, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a non-profit organization that gathers data on the death penalty. More than half of the 38 current death row inmates arrived there in 2003 or earlier. In September, the inmate on death row the longest will mark 36 years since he was condemned to death. Jones was being processed into South Carolina’s death row Friday, according to prison officials.

Source: thestar June 14, 2019 16:46 UTC