Jeremy Bryan Jones

The Sentence

Jeremy Jones at his trial

A jury deliberated only thirty-five minutes before voting 10-2 for Jeremy Bryan Jones to be put to death.

Circuit Judge Charles Graddick, not bound by that recommendation, called Jeremy Bryan Jones "a danger to civilized society" as he sentenced him to die by lethal injection.

Jones told the court "God will have the final say," before Graddick sentenced him.

An appeal is automatic. Jones contends his confessions in the Nichols killing and others were just lies to get extra jail privileges like phone calls to family and meals. He vows to beat his case on appeal.

He has yet to face charges in Georgia for the March 2004 killing of 16-year-old Amanda Greenwell of Douglas County.

"One day I'll be a free man," Jones said. "I'll write me a book and laugh my ass off."

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1. A Series of Unsolved Murders
2. A Missing Mom
3. The Body Count Grows
4. A Deadly FBI Error
5. Jeremy Bryan Jones
6. A Convenient New Identity
7. A Monster on the Loose
8. A Break in the Nichols Case
9. Linking the Two Identities
10. The FBI Admits Their Mistake
11. Good Police Work
12. Jailhouse Confessions
13. Talk the Panties Off a Nun
14. His Girlfriend
15. Public Recantations
16. The Trial
17. The Sentence
18. Bibliography