Julius Jones: Oklahoma recommends taking man off death row weeks before execution, citing ‘inherently wrong’ case
The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommended three-to-one that death row inmate Julius Jones’ upcoming execution should be stopped. The entire process that sent Julius Jones to death row was rotten with “systemic flaws”, from a police investigation reliant on compromised informants, to a trial with a biased and under-informed jury and poor legal representation, Jones’s defence team argued during the appeal “The criminal justice system failed Mr Howell,” Ms Bass, Jones’s public defender, said during her opening arguments. “Julius Jones is lying when he says he has never been violent,” an official from the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office said on Monday in the hearing. This is terrifying.” Ultimately, Mr Morris, the board member, said little about how he reached his decision, but pointed out how Jones’s co-defendant in the murder case, Chris Jordan, only served 15 years in prison, what the board member called an “inherently wrong” facet of the case that put Julius Jones on death row.
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