Barry Jones, who has strong exonerating evidence in his case, is headed back to death row, just as the state of Arizona restarts executions.
On July 6, 1995, Barry Jones, a mechanic in Tucson, was sentenced to die. Jones was convicted of the rape and murder of his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter, Rachel Gray, who died of a blow to her abdomen that was left untreated. But over the next 20 years, as Jones appealed his conviction through the courts, the state’s case against him began to unravel.…