![]() ![]() And since then, the weight has been on to see whether Governor Kevin Stitt would allow the execution to happen, go with the board's recommendation or commute the sentence to life. So there are a lot of concerns around the case, and Jones has always maintained his innocence.ĬHANG: And the state - the state parole board recommended clemency here? In fact, another person has claimed he committed the crime and framed Julius Jones. And there are big questions about whether he actually committed the crime. And he was a promising athlete at the time, and that's part of the reason why we've seen high-profile athletes be part of the effort to stop the execution - and also other celebrities. LAYDEN: Well, Julius Jones, a Black man - he was convicted of a murder in the Oklahoma City area 20 years ago when he was 19 years old. OK, so can you just tell us more about who Julius Jones is and the controversy around his case? Logan Layden with member station KGOU was outside the state penitentiary where hundreds of Jones's supporters had gathered. But the execution was called off after Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt commuted his sentence to life without parole. Jones’ commutation hearing is currently set for September 13th at 9 am.Julius Jones was scheduled to die by lethal injection in Oklahoma this afternoon for a 1999 murder that he has always said he did not commit. ![]() The killer’s lies are a desperate attempt to avoid accountability for his cowardly and brutal murder of Paul Howell in front of his two young daughters.” The killer’s attorneys have had the report for months and were completely aware of what the sentencing language meant.Įvery word of their assertions, intended to manipulate the public and the Pardon and Parole Board are outright lies. “The complete misrepresentation of the investigator’s report is just the latest example of the killer’s and his supporters’ lies. ![]() She was merely providing the options of ‘Life Without Parole’ or ‘Life’ as potential reduced sentences, as is the practice for all commutation considerations at a Stage II hearing.”Īt 11:30 p.m., Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater sent KFOR the following: The PPB’s investigator was not making a recommendation to the Board on how they should vote on Julius Jones’ commutation. The Board knows the purpose of those options and they are included in the investigative reports for all commutations. Those options are included in the “Investigator Recommendation” section due to software limitations preventing staff from creating a new field specifically for that information. Due to the high volume of commutation hearings held since 2019, the Board asked staff to include options for reduced sentences that are within range for the offense(s) being considered. The PPB’s investigators do not make recommendations to the Board on whether or not they should recommend a commutation to the Governor. “I reviewed your filed objection and need to clarify the meaning of the section of the Pardon and Parole Board’s investigative report titled “15. KFOR obtained an email from General Counsel for the Pardon and Parole Board Kyle Counts to Jone’s federal attorney Dale Baich refuting what was said about the parole board investigator in the release. Jones’s death sentence be commuted.”Īt about 10:30 p.m. Jones’s request for relief from his conviction and death sentence,” and “the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board Investigator’s recommendation that Mr. Jones has federal remedies remaining in the lethal injection litigation,” “a commutation hearing is scheduled on Mr. Jones’ defense team, in the documents, state that scheduling an execution date is inappropriate because, “Mr. Jones’ legal team said they submitted a document to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals objecting to the Attorney General John O’Connor’s request for an execution date of Oct. In a public release on Friday at about 5:00 p.m. Howell was shot to death in front of his sister and two daughters as he pulled into the driveway of his Edmond home. Jones was 19-years-old when he was arrested in the murder of Paul Howell, an Edmond businessman. The high-profile story of the Jones case started in the summer of 1999 between Jones’s freshman and sophomore years at the University of Oklahoma. KFOR obtained the refutation email from the board Friday. OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Just hours after Julius Jones’ attorney publicly claimed an Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board investigator recommended the Oklahoma attorney general commute Jones’ sentence and take the death penalty off the table, the parole board is refuting the claims. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Ĭorrection: The story has been updated to reflect the correct time KFOR received the statement from the Pardon and Parole Board. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]()
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