Been trying to get the facts stated and the truth to be told for a while.
“That’s not something that’s easy to talk about. “Yeah, it’s pretty rough, to be honest with you,” Mayfield told reporters on Wednesday, pausing and his eyes filling with tears. The Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Oklahoma is among several high-profile athletes and entertainers who have weighed in on Jones’s case. Prayer vigils were held at the state capitol and barricades were erected outside the governor’s mansion.Įven Baker Mayfield, quarterback for the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, weighed in. Students at high schools across Oklahoma City walked out of classes. The impending execution had prompted protests across Oklahoma and the US. “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. Jones, 41, has maintained his innocence for more than two decades but had been scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in McAlester. The parole board had recommended life with the possibility of parole. Stitt reduced Jones’s sentence for the murder in 1999 of Paul Howell, a businessman in the affluent Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond, to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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