Stitt has no time limit to make a decision on Mr. Jones-Davis said that the fight against his execution was not over, since the board’s recommendation had not been approved by the governor. “It is a shame to me that a whole entire state can bury a man alive for 22 years, lock the door and throw away the key while he waits to be executed.” “It really is a shame to me that it has taken millions of people, literally, to save one Black man’s life in America,” she said. It was telling, she added, that so much outside attention was needed to push the case onto the governor’s desk.
I couldn’t even believe what was happening.” “When the vote came through, it was very surreal,” she said.
Jordan, who visited the home after the killing, could have planted the weapon there. The police found the gun and the bandanna in Mr. Jones to a red bandanna that was found wrapped around the murder weapon. Howell’s relatives who witnessed the murder and a DNA test that linked Mr. Howell’s family and David Prater, the district attorney for Oklahoma County, who opposes the commutation of Mr. African Americans make up a disproportionate number of death row prisoners in Oklahoma and in the United States, and research has shown that people convicted of murder are much more likely to be executed if the person who was killed was white.
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Jones’s supporters have also argued that racism played a role in his trial and sentencing. Jordan have said that he confessed to framing Mr. People who were incarcerated alongside Mr. Howell but served a reduced sentence and was released in 2014, could not be reached for comment this week. Jordan, who was also convicted of murdering Mr. Howell’s killing - and that prosecutors relied too much on the testimony of Christopher Jordan, a co-defendant who said that he had seen Mr. Jones and his supporters have argued that his defense lawyers failed him during his trial - for instance, by neglecting to question family members who have said that he was having dinner with them at the time of Mr. “Our family continues to be victimized by Julius Jones and his lies.” “We are devastated by the decision reached today by the pardon and parole board,” his brother Brian Howell said at a news conference on Monday.
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