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Oklahomas governor has halted the execution of prisoner Julius Jones hours before he was due to be put to death.

Julius Jones. Kevin Stitt grants him clemency. Madeline Davis-Jones the mom of Julius Jones a 40-year-old prisoner who was sentenced to death in 2002 urged Oklahoma Governor. Even as the clock is winding.

At the Tabernacle Baptist Church on Oklahoma Citys northeast side. His mother Madeline was a school teacher and his father Anthony was a cement finisherconstruction worker. Julius Jones has been on Oklahomas death row for 20 years for a crime he did not commit.

He was on the verge of gaining a basketball scholarship when he was arrested and charged with Howells murder in August 1999 according to OU Daily. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted to commute his. And the key witness for the prosecution took a secret deal to reduce his own prison time.

Julius Jones is on death row in Oklahoma despite maintaining his innocence and compelling evidence that he was wrongfully convicted. Julius has an alibi for the crime he is accused of but the jury never heard it. The family of death row inmate Julius Jones waited in vain for hours on Monday outside the Oklahoma governors office in an attempt to make one final desperate plea ahead of the 41-year-olds scheduled 18 November execution.

He has maintained his innocence throughout. Both parents valued education and encouraged all their children to do well in school and work. They were dressed for warmth in.

Julius Jones was sentenced to die for the 1999 shooting death of Paul Howell. The revelation was made last year in a series of letters and video interviews between Arkansas inmate Roderick Wesley and Jones. On the day of Julius Joness clemency hearing a crowd began gathering well before 8 am.

Jones who is represented by federal attorneys Dale Baich and Amanda Bass was convicted and sentenced to death at the age of 19 and has now spent half his life in prison waiting to be executed for a crime that new and compelling evidence suggests he didnt commit. He had an older brother Antonio and younger sister Antonette. Christopher Jordan Julius Jones co-defendant in the 1999 slaying of Edmond businessman Paul Howell admitted in prison to killing Howell and letting Jones take the fall for crime according to an inmate who served time in an Arkansas prison with Jordan.

CT unless Oklahoma Gov. I wasnt involved in it in any way. An eyewitness identified someone else at the crime scene.

Many of you-actually most of you probably have never heard that name before. Kevin Stitt said he was commuting the sentence to. CNNJulius Jones is scheduled to be executed today at 4 pm.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommended granting clemency to Julius Jones a man sentenced to death for a murder he says he did not commit. Julius Jones who is scheduled to be executed for the 1999 murder of Paul Howell has one final chance at clemency after claiming that he was wrongly convicted. Julius Jones maintains his innocence.

Julius Jones was a 19-year-old student at the University of Oklahoma when he was considered as the prime suspect in the killing of 45-year-old businessman Paul Howell. Julius Jones was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 2002 after being accused of killing a man in 1999. In 2002 he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced.

He should be granted clemency and have his sentence commuted but without a major public outcry he could be executed on November 18. Jones 41 is on death row for the fatal shooting of Paul Howell during a 1999 carjacking in Edmond. Jones arrest and the States removal of all prospective black jurors except one evidence shows that a juror used the n-word before jury.

Julius Jones has been on death row in Oklahoma for 19 years for a 1999 murder hes always said he had no part in. JULIUS Jones mom is begging the governor of Oklahoma to spare her sons life as hes set to receive lethal injection. Jones who has spent more than half of his life in prison was convicted of the 1999 murder of Oklahoma City businessman Paul Howell who was shot in front of his.

I didnt even known he had been killed until after the fact he said at a clemency hearing Nov. Julius Jones is innocent. Julius Jones was born on July 25 1980 to Madeline and Anthony Jones and was the middle of three children.

His case which has prompted public demonstrations and celebrity advocacy is. A panel has recommended that Julius Joness sentence in a 1999 murder be commuted.

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