Posted on 11/18/2021 12:04:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt used his authority to spare the life of Julius Jones on Thursday, just hours before his scheduled execution that had drawn widespread outcry and protests over doubts about his guilt in the slaying of a businessman more than 20 years ago.
Stitt commuted the 41-year-old Jones’ death sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He had been scheduled for execution at 4 p.m.
“After prayerful consideration and reviewing materials presented by all sides of this case, I have determined to commute Julius Jones’ sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole,” Stitt said in a news release.
A crowd that had gathered inside the Oklahoma Capitol in support of Jones broke out into loud applause and cheers after the decision was announced shortly after noon Thursday.
Earlier Thursday, Jones' attorneys had filed a last-minute emergency request seeking a temporary stop to his execution, saying Oklahoma’s lethal injection procedures pose a “serious and substantial risk of severe suffering and pain to prisoners.” The lawyers cited last month’s execution in which John Marion Grant convulsed and vomited as he was being put to death.
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Can’t execute black people anymore…. Or arrest them.
What if he’s really not guilty?
I’m surprised that he didn’t appointment to his Diversity. Equity and Inclusion Team.
He says he didn’t do it. The family says he did, and shot daddy in the head in front of the kids. He was a kid himself. The real issue is the Celebrity crap again.
Still no parole so he’ll just be a money pit.
“The anticipation of certain death is worse than death itself”
Saw that in a steven segall movie.
Now he gets to rot in a concrete closet for the rest of his “life.”
Is governor going to grant Kim conjugal visits with Jones?
Not from Oklahoma but this is from the article:
“Jones was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to die for the 1999 shooting death of Paul Howell, a businessman from the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond, during a carjacking.”
He claimed he was framed, but there were witnesses of the murder.
I’ve read they have the daughter as a witness who was in the car, bystanders saw him and there was dna evidence.
“Paul Scott Howell, a businessman, was shot to death while sitting in the driver’s seat of his GMC Suburban, which was parked in the driveway of his parents’ home in Edmond, Oklahoma, on July 28, 1999. Howell’s daughter, Rachel Howell, said she remembered sitting in the backseat of their car and seeing Jones approach the car. She claims she then saw Jones shoot her father in the head. The murderer then left in Howell’s Suburban Witnesses at the time reported seeing a black man with a red bandana and 1–2 inches of hair showing between his ear and wave cap shoot Howell. Jones had a shaved[vague] head at the time Police found the murder weapon wrapped in a red bandana in Jones’ family home. Jones and Jordan were ultimately arrested and indicted for first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit a felony (the stolen Suburban)”
ones denied having a role in the carjacking that led to Howell’s murder. Jones and his family have maintained that he was eating dinner and playing games at home with his family on the night of the murder. Jones also stated that Christopher Jordan spent the night at Jones’ house on the evening of the murder and maintains that Jordan planted evidence framing Jones for the murder. According to Jones, the officer who arrested him called him a “nigger” and dared him to run, implying the officer would shoot him if he did.
Legal proceedings
Christopher Jordan, Jones’ co-defendant, entered a plea agreement with the state in which he received a 30-year prison sentence for murder and conspiracy under the condition that he testify against Jones. During the trial, neither Jones nor his family testified, and the defense team did not bring up his alibi. In an affidavit, Jones’ public defender, David McKenzie, later stated that this was because he had “personally concluded that the alibi defense was untrue”. Eleven out of the twelve jurors at the trial were white; one juror allegedly referred to Jones as a “n...”. One juror alleges another juror called for Jones to be lynched outside the courthouse. Jones was found guilty and sentenced to death in 2002.
In 2017, a DNA test linked Jones to the red bandana that was found wrapped around the murder weapon found in his family’s home”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Darius_Jones
Looks like Jones will stay ORANGE JULIUS, nyuk nyuk.
“What if he’s really not guilty?”
The evidence in this case seems to be:
*The murder implements were found in Jones’ home
*Testimony of Christopher Jordan, who claimed to have been Jones’ getaway driver
Jones claims that Jordan was the killer and hid the murder weapon at Jones’ house to frame him.
Not an impossible story, and to me enough reasonable doubt not to execute.
It's not about that. It's about the method of execution "causing severe suffering and pain".
His family says he did it? Yikes...you don’t see that very often!
Eyewitnesses testify to Jones being the murderer. Did the real killer disguise himself to look like Jones? Everyone needs to carry their own bodycam. To give justice on those who are guilty but get released.
I agree.
The death sentence should be reserved for only 100% positive proof that the perp is guilty.
If there is ANY doubt, life without parole.
You can’t undo an execution if later it turns out they are NOT guilty. It’s kinda final.
He will get patole, that is the next step
Parole
Another Repuke Cuck who needs to be primaried out.
The family watched it happen in their driveway. A carjacking.
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