However, our family also realizes that the Clemency hearing for Julius Jones will be held before the same Pardon and Parole Board members that irresponsibly and recklessly recommended his commutation. This will finally allow for Jones’s entitled Clemency hearing to proceed. “Our family is encouraged by both Governor Stitt’s decision to reject the commutation recommendation of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board and by Attorney General O’Connor’s decision to move forward and request an execution date for Julius Jones…which was set by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals for November 18, 2021. On Wednesday, the family of murder victim Paul Howell responded to the governor’s decision, releasing this statement– The precedent in Oklahoma is for death row inmates to receive the clemency hearings to which they are entitled prior to their execution date.” Gov. “I am not accepting the Pardon and Parole Board’s recommendation to commute the sentence of Julius Jones because a clemency hearing, not a commutation hearing, is the appropriate venue for our state to consider death row cases.Ĭlemency hearings are more intensive and thorough than a commutation hearing and include the option for the inmate to speak publicly before the Pardon and Parole Board as well as the victim’s family and attorneys from both sides. Governor Stitt issued this statement on Tuesday saying–
Stitt says he won’t decide on commuting Julius Jones’ sentence until after clemency hearing ‘I am not accepting the Pardon and Parole Board’s recommendation,’ Gov.
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