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

By Kaelan Deese
Published November 18, 2021 7:23pm ET
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Oklahoma governor grants clemency to Julius Jones hours before set execution time
GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt recently argued that the mandate “violates the personal freedoms of many Oklahomans,”

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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