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■ JonesContinued from Page 1AThe Alabama Supreme Court now has declined to hear the former Miami, Okla., resident’s appeal, and the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals has issued a final certificate of judgment..Jones, 36, has been on death row in Alabama for more than four years. An execution date has not been set and may not be for several more years. He still has federal appeal options.“Jeremy Jones was a murdering killer when we sent him todeath row,’’ Alabama Attorney General Troy King said in a news release Tuesday.“He earned the sentence he got,” he said. “I am pleased that the appeals court will not interfere with carrying this sentence out. Today, justice was protected.”Nichols was raped and shot to death, and her home was set on fire. A jury in Mobile County Circuit Court convicted Jones of the killing in 2005. Two years later, he pleaded guilty to arson in connection with the crime.Before his trial in Alabama, Jones made a series of jailhouse confessions to more than a dozenmurders, including four cases in Oklahoma and Kansas that involve as many as eight possible victims, according to authorities. He has been investigated extensively as a suspected serial killer.But, other than the Nichols murder, Jones has been charged with just two other slayings. Authorities in Georgia charged him with the 2004 killing of 16-year-old Amanda Greenwell in Douglasville. He also was charged at one time with the rape and. stabbing death of a 47-year-old prostitute in the Garden District in New Orleans, La. Neither of those cases has been prosecuted.AP fileJeremy Jones (left) sits with his lawyer, Habib Hazdi, in 2005 in a courtroom in Mobile, Ala. A death-penalty conviction against Jones has been upheld.
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