Associated Press
FLORENCE, Ariz. — The state’s clemency board has denied an inmate’s plea to avoid a death sentence, setting the stage for next week’s scheduled execution.
An attorney for Robert Glen Jones Jr. says the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency voted 4-0 Wednesday afternoon against a reprieve or recommending to Gov. Jan Brewer that Jones’ sentence be commuted to life in prison.
The 44-year-old Jones is set to be executed by injection Oct. 23 at the state prison in Florence.
Jones was sentenced to death for the murders of six people during two 1996 armed robberies in Tucson.
Jones and a co-defendant were found guilty of fatally shooting two people at a Tucson smoke shop in May 1996 and four others at a social club the following month.