Jonathan Nobles Murder

The night of September 13, 1986, Jonathan Nobles was consumed with a combination of drugs and alcohol when he broke into the house of Mitzi Johnson-Nalley and Kelly Farquar. Nobles brutally stabbed both Nalley and Farquar more than 20 times to death. He severely wounded Nalley’s date, Ron Ross, who barely survived with a lost eye and 19 stab wounds. During the time of the attack, Nobles was on parole for about 4 months. He was also employed by the Central Texas Crime Prevention Association of Round Rock. A week after he escaped the night of the murder scene, the police had enough physical evidence to put him in custody. That is when he confessed and showed all the evidence he had hidden. He said he did not remember everything that happened the night of the murders because of his impairment from drugs and alcohol. In 1987, Nobles was found guilty and placed on death row for the murder of Nalley and Farquer. Nobles was not rehabilitated. He knew right from wrong given that he was on parole for theft and employed at a crime prevention association, he showed no remorse when he plead insanity at his trial, and he used the media to convince the public that he changed.

He was a coward for not facing them so they could at least have some type of closure, no matter what they had to say to him. But he apologized to the mothers of the victims and the survivor in front of people on the day of his execution. Nobles also told the media, “I don’t think I’m the monster who perpetrated these terrible acts. Nothing I can do for a thousand years can relieve me of my responsibility” (Blanco). The essay, “A Death in Texas” by Steve Earle, shows Earle’s sympathy for Nobles from his engagements with Nobles. Nobles wanted the world to believe he was rehabilitated by using the media and Steve Earle. He was a selfish man who thrived off of the public’s