A Gordon county juror deliberated about four hours over two days to decide that Jerry Jones should die for killing his former girlfriend's parents, sister and their 10-month old daughter.

Jones had pleaded guilty about year after the January 2004 murders but he had to be tried before a jury because Gordon County District Attorney Joe Campbell was seeking the death penalty.

The jury deliberated for about an hour on Thursday and three hours more on Friday before coming back with its decision.

Jones told police he killed Tommy and Nola Blaylock, ages 59 and 61, Georgia Bradley, 34, and Jerri Jones, his infant daughter with former girlfriend Melissa Peeler, to get back at his ex-sweetheart because she was leaving him.

Peeler, a truck driver, was in Oregon meeting with a prospective driving partner when Jones called her to tell her he had killed her family and had also taken her three daughters, two of them also his. He was caught the next day near Chattanooga, where he shot himself in the jaw while the girls watched.