Jones’ rights under the state and federal constitutions have been violated and his conviction and death sentence should be overturned. Supreme Court has made unequivocally clear that our criminal justice system cannot tolerate such blatant examples of racial prejudice on the part of even a single juror. Kevin Stitt has granted clemency to Julius Jones, commuting Jones death sentence just hours before he was scheduled to be executed for a 1999 murder he says he did not commit. Jones’ arrest and the State’s removal of all prospective black jurors except one -evidence shows that a juror used the n-word before jury deliberations at the sentencing phase. In a case riddled with odious racial discrimination - including a police officer’s use of a racial slur during Mr. While playing, 2 young white teenagers came and started a ruckus, called him the N-word and then stabbed Julius 5 times. Jones’ co-defendant was released after only 15 years and is now a free man. On June 23, Julius Cummings, a 16 year old black teen, was peacefully playing basketball in the park.
In 2018, the NY Innocence Project and JuVee Productions produced The Last Defense, which brought Jones’ story to national attention. However, after pleading guilty to the crime, Mr. The Justice for Julius campaign, powered by Represent Justice, began in March 2020 to support a grassroot effort to save Julius Jones, an innocent Black man, from execution in Oklahoma.
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Jones’ trial that his co-defendant would serve a 30-year sentence in exchange for his testimony. His co-defendant was the state’s key witness against him, and the prosecution repeatedly told jurors at Mr. The chief justice, t in particular, gave sanction to all the narrow prejudices. Jones’ co-defendant fit an eyewitness’s description of the shooter, while Mr. wild stories were confounded with the projects contained in his letters.
Julius jones is on death row in oklahoma,ĭespite maintaining his innocence and compelling evidence that he was wrongfully convicted.
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