Claude Jones was executed in 2000 for the murder of a liquor store owner Allen Hilzendager. On November 14, 1989, Jones and another man were seen pulling into a liquor store in Point Blank, Texas. One person stayed in the car while another went inside. The witnesses were standing across the road and were unable to see which man went inside. Although Jones testified that he never entered the store, Dixon and Jordan, the two other men who were with Jones at the liquor store, testified that Jones was the shooter. The only evidence in Jones’s conviction was a strand of hair. A forensic expert testified that the hair came from Jones. In early 2000, Jones’s attorneys filed petitions that requested the hair be submitted for DNA testing that was now
