Oklahoma Governor Stitt stopped the death penalty for the killer a few hours before the execution by the fact that the governor of the state Kevin Stitt ordered to stop the procedure a few hours before its execution, reports Reuters.
Julius Jones was sentenced to death for the murder of an insurance manager during a car theft in 1999. 11 hours before the sentence was to be carried out, the State Board of Pardons and Parole found it necessary to replace the sentence with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
The convict's lawyers provided evidence that that at the time of the crime he was at home with his family, which, according to them, the jury never found out due to the fact that his lawyers at that time could not fully investigate the murder. They plan to continue to seek justice for Jones.
Earlier it became known that a military tribunal in Cameroon sentenced to death four people who were found guilty of murdering seven schoolchildren in the city of Kumba. On October 24, 2020, the criminals broke into a private educational institution on three motorcycles and opened fire. As a result of the attack, seven schoolchildren were killed and 13 children were seriously injured.