King named Chris Jordan and Julius Jones to investigators and said the two men had asked him to help them sell the stolen Suburban. They learned later that a man named Ladell King had been offering to sell the car. Two days after Howell was killed, police found his Suburban parked in a grocery store parking lot. She was not able to identify the shooter’s face because it was covered,” Bass told ABC News in 2018. “Megan Tobey described the shooter as a young Black man wearing a red bandana, a white shirt and a stocking cap or skullcap. Howell’s GMC Suburban went missing and his sister, Megan Tobey, was the only eyewitness. That all changed in 1999 when Howell, 45, was shot in his family’s driveway after a car-jacking in the wealthy suburb of Edmond, Oklahoma. Before he was in prison, friends and teachers knew him as a champion high school basketball player who attended the University of Oklahoma on an academic scholarship. Jones, 41, has spent most of his life behind bars. What followed were decades of public scrutiny and relentless work from his legal team. Julius Jones was 19 years old when he was arrested for the 1999 murder of Oklahoma businessman Paul Howell, and sentenced to death in 2002. I’ll be even better when I get out and I can hug y’all and we can start helping change the world,'” Antoinette Jones said. Jones’ mother, Madeline Davis-Jones, said the parole board’s decision had given the family hope in the eleventh hour.Īntoinette Jones said in September that her brother was calm when he heard the parole board’s recommendation. “Nightline” spoke to Jones’ family in September following the parole board’s recommendation to commute Jones’ death sentence. 1, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted to recommend clemency for Jones in a 3-1 favor. Stitt said at the time he was waiting for a clemency hearing to make a decision. In September, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommended Stitt commute Jones’ sentence to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Jones’ execution date was slated for Nov. Last week, a federal appeals court rejected Jones’ final appeal, which meant the decision to spare his life lay only with Stitt, who could have accepted the parole board’s recommendation to grant Jones clemency. “After prayerful consideration and reviewing materials presented by all sides of this case, I have determined to commute Julius Jones’ sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole,” Stitt said in a statement released Thursday. Kevin Stitt commuted Julius Jones’ sentence to life without the possibility of parole the day Jones was scheduled to be executed. "We have worked closely with students and student groups who wished to assembly today so we could provide them with a safe space to express themselves regarding an issue they are passionate about.(OKLAHOMA CITY) - After spending the past 20 years fighting for his life on death row, Oklahoma Gov. "OKCPS supports our students' rights to peaceful assembly and their freedom of expression," the district said in a statement to CBS affiliate KWTV. Oklahoma City Public Schools said it supports the students' academic and social-emotional needs. Students at multiple Oklahoma schools walked out of class Wednesday morning to protest Jones' execution. "With 1 day left of his life, the governor hasn't acted." So much so that the state parole board recommended to the governor that he not be executed," the rapper tweeted. "The evidence that this man is innocent is overwhelming. Cole said Wednesday that he would call the governor and urge him to spare Jones' life. In 2020, several NBA stars, including Russell Westbrook, Blake Griffin, and Trae Young wrote letters to the governor, urging him to grant clemency for Jones.
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