Oklahoma’s governor commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones hours before he was to be executed. He had been convicted in a fatal 1999 shooting.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones, who was convicted in a fatal 1999 shooting, to life without parole hours before he was scheduled to be executed Thursday.
The state’s parole board had raised doubts about his guilt. The case has drawn national attention with celebrities such as Kim Kardashian West calling Mr. Jones’s incarceration a miscarriage of justice and more than 6.4 million people signing
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