USA - Tennessee. A jury sentenced Henry Lee Jones, 51, Black, to death

A Shelby County jury on Saturday found Henry Lee Jones, 51, Black, guilty of 2 counts of 1st-degree murder in the 2003 slayings of an elderly couple and sentenced him to death. Jones had been convicted and sentenced to death in 2009 for killing Clarence and Lillian James in their home, but he got a new trial when the conviction was overturned last year. The state Supreme Court ruled the jury should not have been told of charges faced by Jones in the death of 19-year-old Carlos Perez 4 days later in Florida. Judge W. Mark Ward has set June 5 as the beginning of the confirmation phase. In the meantime, Jones was sentenced to death in Florida for the Aug. 27, 2003 murder of Perez (see May 6, 2014).