CALHOUN, Ga. -- A jury said Friday that Jerry Jones should be put to death for the killings of his infant daughter and three of his ex-girlfriend's relatives in Ranger in northwest Georgia.

Jones pleaded guilty to murder in the January 2004 killings of Tom and Nola Blaylock, their daughter Georgia Mae Bradley, and Jones' daughter, 10-month-old Jerri Jones.

Authorities said that after the killings, Jones fled with Melissa Peeler's three surviving children, two of them his own, and fled over the state line into East Ridge, Tenn., a suburb of Chattanooga.

The three children were found unharmed. Jones lead police on a 19-hour manhunt that ended in a car crash after a police chase through a Chattanooga, Tenn., suburb.

Just before he was arrested, Jones shot off the lower portion of his face in a botched suicide attempt. The gunshot wound left his faced disfigured.

He spent months in a prison hospital, where he had to write out his interviews with law enforcement agents investigating the killings because he was unable to talk at the time.

The jury reached its verdict after six hours of deliberation over two days.

The nearly three-week sentencing trial was delayed for years by attorneys' motions and appeals, including a Georgia Supreme Court review of Jones' guilty plea.

Jones sat silently in the courtroom after the verdict was announced, Gordon County District Attorney Joe Campbell said.

Members of the Blaylock family could not immediately be reached for comment.