Parole hearing for man sentenced in killing

Published 9:03 am Monday, August 4, 2008

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A man serving a life sentence for the murder of a Birmingham-Southern College graduate is schedule to have a hearing Monday before the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Jerry Lee Jones is serving life in the 1976 killing of 21-year-old Quenette Shehane. He had initially gotten a death sentence but that sentence was later commuted.

Shehane’s killing marked the start of the victim’s rights movement in Alabama, a crusade led by her mother, Miriam Shehane. Victims of Crime and Leniency, or VOCAL, was organized in 1982.

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