Tag: Julius Jones
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Governor Grants Clemency to Julius Jones
By Equal Justice Initiative – 11-18-21 Hours before the State of Oklahoma was scheduled to execute Julius Jones today, Gov. Kevin Stitt granted clemency to Mr. Jones and commuted his death sentence to life in prison without parole. The Oklahoma […]
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Julius Jones: Oklahoma recommends taking man off death row weeks before execution, citing ‘inherently wrong’ case
By Josh Marcus San Francisco, The Independent, Nov. 1, 2021 The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommended three-to-one that death row inmate Julius Jones’ upcoming execution should be stopped. The vote comes just weeks before he was set to be […]
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Oklahoma P&P Board Recommends Governor Should Commute Julius Jones’s Death Sentence
Equal Justice Initiative, 09.13.21 Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board today recommended that Julius Jones’s death sentence be commuted to life in prison after board members expressed doubts about his guilt in a 1999 shooting. “I believe in death penalty cases […]
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