Andrew Lee Jones

Andrew Lee Jones (August 24, 1955 – July 22, 1991) was an American executed for murder. He was tried, convicted, and executed in the electric chair in Louisiana for the murder of the 11-year-old daughter of his ex-girlfriend. After the girl's mother ended their relationship, Jones kidnapped the girl from her grandmother's home, then raped and strangled her.

Jones was the last inmate to be executed in Louisiana's electric chair, "Gruesome Gertie".

Early life and prior criminal history Jones was born in Lakeland, Louisiana in 1955. He was the fifth of 14 children. School records indicated that he had an IQ of 85. Jones had no juvenile arrest record.

At Mingo's direction, police recovered a TG&Y bag from a dumpster near a grocery store. The bag contained socks, a pair of blue jeans, and a pink sweatshirt, which were wet, muddy, and stained. Later analysis identified the stains as a mixture of blood and seminal fluid. Mingo also told the police about a pair of boxer shorts that he had found in the bathroom of the apartment. The shorts belonged to Mingo, but Jones had worn them on Friday night. With Mingo's written consent, the police recovered a pair of stained brown and white boxer shorts from the trunk of Mingo's car. Analysis confirmed the presence of blood and seminal fluid on the boxer shorts. The Louisiana Board of Pardons had voted to recommend a stay of execution of Jones. However, Governor Buddy Roemer refused to delay the execution, citing the nature of the crime and his prior convictions."This man's justice day has arrived. He kidnapped, molested, beat, raped and strangled an 11-year-old child. Prior to that, he had been convicted of aggravated battery, which had been reduced from aggravated rape. He has a violent history. His day of justice has come. This man deserves what he is about to get." Jones did not make a final statement, but at a Pardon Board hearing three days before his execution, he said he did not remember what happened because he was drunk. "There's a possible chance I did it, a possible chance I didn't do it. If I had not been drunk, nothing like that would have happened. I'm like anybody else... I don't want to die or anything like that."