Quin: Dear Governor Abbott. This is Quintin Jones Texas death row inmate, has been incarcerated for 20 years. I know you don’t know me, Quin: I’m writing this letter to ask you if you could find it in your heart to grant me clemency so I don’t be executed on May 19, 2021 Quin: I got two weeks to live, starting today. Suleika: How is the person you are now different than the person you were when you got on death row 21 years ago? Quin: More thoughtful … Love myself more … TEXT CARD: Quinton Jones admits to murdering his great aunt in 1999. The family has forgiven him and opposes the execution. Quin: It took me years to forgive myself… Quin: But another thing to help me out was my great aunt, Aunt Mattie. It was her sister. So by her loving me enough to forgive me. That gave me the strength to try to do better and want to do better. Quin: Growing up in the hood, and growing up as a black male Quin: you are taught to be tough and hard, macho. You know what I’m saying. Quin: So why kill me when I was a 19 year old on crack, on cocaine, on heroin. Quin: I was like I was 20 years old. How can you say, well I kill somebody 20 some years ago? Were you the same person? So you need to die now. Quin: I’m nothing like that person. Quin: If you can’t tell the difference in twenty two years then only God can help you, not me. Quin: Like they say in the Bible: as you grow, you put away childish things and you become a man. And I became a man on death row. So now you killing the man, and not the child. Quin: So once you get drug free out that environment, you become the person that can self analyze. Quin: Yeh, I messed up. For whatever reason I messed up. Suleika: Are you ready to die, have you accepted it or have you arrived at some kind of peace around it? Quin: Well, no, I’m not ready to die. You know, this way I’m being selfish. I’m not ready to die. Quin: there’s is a great possibility that it could happen. So in order to not to break down mentally, I had to accept that years ago. Quin: But. At the end of the day, I don’t want to be the source of anybody else’s pain and sadness, so I deal with it by myself. Quin: Plus being in jail for 20 years, you around death a lot. Quin: I’ve seen over three hundred some executions. So I’m not comfortable with death, but I’ve been living around death. Quin: I understand, too, that if I do get clemency I know that instead of dying on the 19th, I may die years later, but it won’t be in the free world. It’ll be in prison and I can accept that because there’s other avenues in prison that I can take to better myself and to better others along the way. Quin: And as the old saying go, if you don’t learn from history, you tend to repeat it. I’ve learned from history. I’ve had twenty two years of torment to learn that the mistakes I made – its mistakes its not something definitely solid about who I am. It’s just a part of a bigger me. So if you could find it in your heart, Governor, to grant me clemency, Quin: that I can continue to live life to better myself, to better those around me and not be the source of pain and hurt that it could cause if I get executed. All I’m asking you to do if you find in your heart Mr. Abbott Is to give me a second chance at life. TEXT CARD: Texas Governor Greg Abbott can stop Quin’s execution. Quin is scheduled to be killed May 19, 2021.