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Oklahoma governor grants clemency to Julius Jones hours before set execution time

By Kaelan Deese
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Oklahoma governor grants clemency to Julius Jones hours before set execution time

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt issued a last-minute executive order to grant clemency to death row inmate Julius Jones on Thursday, hours before he was slated to be executed.

Jones was scheduled to be executed at 4 p.m. local time at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. However, Stitt has now commuted Jones’s sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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