Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt on Thursday stopped the execution of Twes-Profile Inmates Julius Jones Jones, at the time before he was scheduled to die for a 22-year-old murder, where doubts about his mistake had been appointed.
Suspension of the tenth governor pause attended the clemency recommendation from Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, which chose 3-1 on November 1 that Jones punishment must be communicated to live in prison.
“After consideration of praying and reviewing the material presented by all sides of this case, I have been determined to translate JULUS JONES punishment to a life sentence without the possibility of parole,” Stitt said in a statement.
Substitution was submitted more than four hours before Jones died with deadly injection of the cocktail of three drugs challenged by his lawyer as inhuman in the last minute attraction.
Jones, 41, was convicted because of the Fatal Shooting Insurance Executive Paul Howell during the 1999 car hijacking on the entrance.
But his lawyer quoted the evidence that he came home with his family when the murder occurred, which they said the jury had never learned because his lawyer at the time failed to investigate fully.
This case, which has attracted a broad interest in celebrity, including Kim Kardashian West, and an anti-death penalty activist, triggered several protests and vigils throughout the state in the last two days.
The crowd outside the country’s entertainers in McAlester where Jones is scheduled to be sentenced to erupt on cheeafter after learning the governor’s decision.
Supporters shouted Jones’s name, hugging and wiping tears, the video posted on Twitter showed.
Amanda Bass, a lawyer for Jones, said he regretted that the governor did not adopt the board’s recommendations to allow Jones the possibility of parole, but was grateful that the Stitt did not allow “irreparable errors”.
“The Governor Stitt takes important steps today to restore public beliefs in the criminal justice system by ensuring that Oklahoma does not carry out innocent men,” he said in a statement.
Jones was among the five curly inmates who won the inap of the execution from the three judges panels from the 10th Appeal Court on October 27.
But the US Supreme Court raised the time of stopping the next day, allowing the state to continue execution for the first.
Time since 2015 by putting John Grant’s death, another of five inmates, hours later with deadly injections.
Eyewitnesses said Grant Conduls and vomited before die, while the state correction department said there was no complication.
Grant has become the Plaintiff in a lawsuit set to trial next year challenging the three drug protocols that end their lives as inhuman, but the state refuses to delay execution.