JUSTICE FOR JULIUS JONES UPDATE TRIAL

Jones’ rights under the state and federal constitutions have been violated and his conviction and death sentence should be overturned. Supreme Court has made unequivocally clear that our criminal justice system cannot tolerate such blatant examples of racial prejudice on the part of even a single juror. Jones’ arrest and the State’s removal of all prospective black jurors except one -evidence shows that a juror used the n-word before jury deliberations at the sentencing phase. In a case riddled with odious racial discrimination - including a police officer’s use of a racial slur during Mr. Jones, now 41, has been on death row for more than half of his life for the murder of Paul Howell. Kevin Stitt, however, announced at noon Thursday he has commuted Jones' sentence to life without the possibility of parole. Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Jones’ co-defendant was released after only 15 years and is now a free man. Julius Jones was scheduled to be executed at 4 p.m. Stitt grants Julius Jones life without parole hours before his 4 PM CST execution. However, after pleading guilty to the crime, Mr.

JUSTICE FOR JULIUS JONES UPDATE TRIAL

Jones’ trial that his co-defendant would serve a 30-year sentence in exchange for his testimony. His co-defendant was the state’s key witness against him, and the prosecution repeatedly told jurors at Mr. Julius Jones remains incarcerated in Oklahoma, without the possibility of parole, despite maintaining his innocence and being TWICE recommended for commutation by the Oklahoma Pardon & Parole Board for a sentence with the possibility of parole. 16,315 people like this 18,129 people follow this Public Figure Cause Photos See all Videos See all 1:25 We’re just halfway there. Jones’ co-defendant fit an eyewitness’s description of the shooter, while Mr.

Julius Jones is on death row in Oklahoma, despite maintaining his innocence and compelling evidence that he was wrongfully convicted.

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