George Jones Executed Today - 220th Person Executed Under Rick Perry

Updated at 7PM on June 2, 2010.

Tuesday, June 2, Texas executed George Jones (TDCJ info). He had an 11th grade education. More than 80 percent of all people in Texas prisons are high school dropouts.

Alba was the 459th person executed in Texas since 1982 and the 220th person since Rick Perry became governor. He was the 12th person executed in Texas in 2010. 

Use the Governor's email form to contact Perry to express your opposition to this execution. Or call Perry and leave a voice mail at 512 463 1782. If you live in Texas, call your state legislators and let them know that you support a moratorium on executions. Find out who your legislators are here. 

From the AP:

Authorities linked George Jones to numerous crimes in the Dallas area, mostly carjackings, and Jones admits he dealt drugs around the city.

But the 36-year-old Dallas man says he "accidentally" shot Forest Hall once in self-defense and isn't responsible for the fatal shooting and carjacking that put Jones on death row. He's scheduled to be executed this evening in Huntsville.

"I wasn't there when the dude got shot," Jones said of the April 13, 1993, slaying of the 22-year-old Hall, whose body was found beside a rural road near Lancaster . The Parkland Memorial Hospital worker had been shot twice in the head.

"I wasn't involved. I didn't do it – period," Jones said from a small visiting cage outside death row at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit.

Greg Davis, who prosecuted him for capital murder, called Jones' innocence claims "absolute falsity."

Jones' appeals were exhausted and no last-minute attempts to stop the punishment were planned, his lawyer said. The lethal injection would be the 12th this year in Texas, the nation's most active capital punishment state.