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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At the least he is an accomplice .help do a murder then just as guilty as the killer.
That's what juries are for. They saw it otherwise.
That’s retarded. There is no doubt he was involved in the carjacking. He is already a death penalty guy. He plead guilty to another armed robbery with a gun from 6 days before. Gun was found in his bedroom along with the bandana with his DNA.
Execute the evil worthless SOB.
And there's the real reason.
If Jones was white there'd be no threats from any woke mob, and the family of the murder victim would get to see justice actually being done.
He just might as well commute everybody else on Death Row then.
Now he gets to rot in a concrete closet for the rest of his “life.”
Yeah sure. For thugs like him, it’s just life in a different city. They get to get high, get into fights, get fat, pump iron, read books, have sex, etc.
It isn’t like he’ll be in supermax 23 hours a day in a cell. We reserve that for the velvet rope rioters of Jan 6th.
You think he’s innocent and your solution is to keep him locked up for the rest of his life?
There is precisely zero chance this guy is innocent and the OK governor is being an idiot. You have eyewitnesses, dna evidence, and possession of the murder weapon. My guess is that if you had video of the incident it wouldn’t matter either.
The businessman’s family.
I don’t care if they fry him or not. But nix on the racist crap, ok? He didn’t use a spear.
Looks like Jones will stay ORANGE JULIUS, nyuk nyuk.
Good one......lol
Chessman was white. And people were clamoring for his execution on charges of rape, at least in part because he was Jewish, but also because he was guilty. That was a different time.
Thank you, thank you (bowing)
Proof once again executions should be swift and public.
Thank you, thank you (bowing)
I’ll look forward to your next ones.....;)
I hope he’s Muslim so that he spends the rest of his life telling himself he was thiiiiissssssss close to the 72 but the evil infidels took that from him. LOL
Read post 10.. He sounds pretty guilty to me.. The Governor error d on this.. The guy needs to be executed..
Cesar has spoken.
Cesar Stitt appeared today from the balcony of his palace and gave the crowd assembled below what they wanted, a thumbs up for convicted killer Julius Jones. He then disappeared to the confines of the palace again to confer with his advisors about the “Indian Problem”.
Hail Cesar!
the OK governor is being an idiot
He is usually pretty good at that.
Coward!
He didn’t use a spear,you never read M.A.S.H. and I’ll express myself as I damn well please.
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