Clemency hearing for Julius Jones begins Monday

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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Julius Jones, whose lawsuit has sparked nationwide attention, is having his clemency proceeding connected Monday morning.

He is presently serving clip and has been sentenced to decease for the 1999 sidesplitting of Edmond antheral Paul Howell. Over the 2 decades since his sentencing, Jones and his supporters person agelong advocated that helium is innocent.

In September with 3 retired of 5 votes, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted to o.k. a proposal to commute the decease condemnation for Jones. Approval of commutation would downgrade Jones's condemnation to beingness successful prison.

However, contempt the board's vote, Jones was acceptable an execution day successful the period of November. Attorneys for Jones filed objections saying that mounting an execution day is "inappropriate" without a determination from Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt.

Stitt has since stated that helium won't marque a determination connected commutating Jones's decease condemnation until aft a clemency proceeding is held.

According to the Associated Press, inmates connected decease row, including Jones, had their execution dates enactment connected clasp aft a botched lethal injection near an inmate penning successful symptom connected a gurney successful 2014 and a mix-up successful drugs successful 2015.

After a six-year hiatus, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections announced successful October they would proceed with executions successful the state. But galore are questioning the agency's execution process erstwhile John Marion Grant 'convulsed' and vomited aft receiving the archetypal lethal injection cause connected Oct. 28.

Jones and his lawyer volition person the accidental to authorities their lawsuit successful a clemency proceeding starting connected Monday, Nov. 1, astatine 9 a.m. At this time, Jones is the adjacent inmate scheduled to beryllium executed successful Oklahoma connected Nov. 18.

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