In a statement to CNN, Rachel Howell said Jones, his family and defense team “want people to believe that Julius Jones is completely innocent, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence against him.” Both have rejected the evidence put forth by Jones and his attorneys, with the previous attorney general referring to it as “misinformation.” The groundswell of sympathy for Jones, however, has been painful for Howell’s family, which - along with the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office - have pointed out Jones’ sentence has been repeatedly upheld on appeal. Support for Jones is ‘extremely tough’ on victim’s family, daughter says “I am not accepting the Pardon and Parole Board’s recommendation to commute the sentence of Julius Jones,” Stitt wrote, “because a clemency hearing, not a commutation hearing, is the appropriate venue for our state to consider death row cases.” Ultimately, the decision for clemency lies with the governor, who said in a letter to the parole board last month he would not make a decision based on their recommendation Jones’ sentence be commuted, saying instead a clemency hearing would be the “appropriate venue” for his case to be considered. But a week later, an execution date was set by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, prompting the clemency hearing. Monday’s hearing took place before the same parole board that recommended in September Jones’ sentence be commuted to life in prison with the possibility of parole. “I think it has meant the absolute world, that people have come together and that that numbers of supporters are fighting for Julius.” “I don’t know where we would be,” she said. But she believes the broad support today has made a difference. Before “The Last Defense,” she said there weren’t many people aware of Jones’ case. That was echoed by Cece Jones-Davis, the director of the Justice for Julius campaign, which aims to raise awareness of Jones’ case and lobby for clemency. “I appreciate that we have the help now,” she said, “because we didn’t have that 22 years ago.” It means that we can kind of breathe a little bit easier, knowing that other people are willing to fight alongside us. “It means the world to me,” Jones’ younger sister, Antoinette Jones, told CNN in an interview. The support goes beyond his family and celebrities: More than 6.4 million people have signed a petition asking Stitt, a Republican, to prevent his execution. Jones’ case has attracted widespread attention in recent years, in part due to the ABC documentary series “The Last Defense,” which spotlighted his case in 2018. The fraternity, through its more than 720 college and alumni chapters and general-organization members, serves communities in the United States, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean.CNN has reached out to Howell for reaction to the board’s recommendation. The Fraternity has long stood at the forefront of the African-American community’s fight for civil rights through Alpha men such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Thurgood Marshall, Paul Robeson, Andrew Young, Edward Brooke and Cornel West. The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., headquartered in Baltimore, MD, was founded on December 4, 1906, at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Since the historic Scottsboro Boys case and others, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the world’s first intercollegiate fraternity founded by African American men, has stood at the forefront in the fight for justice and Civil Rights for African Americans and the wrongly accused and convicted for more than a century. Jones in his fight to prove his innocence, the Fraternity in good conscience cannot stand idly by and allow a miscarriage of justice from a wrongful execution. Like the more than 6.3 million supporters nationwide, who signed a petition supporting Mr. We are aware of the inconsistencies and the impact of racial bias associated with this case along with the impact of racial bias on death penalty cases, in general. The Fraternity is also asking its nearly 100,000 members in its more than 720 college and alumni chapters as well as among our general organization and unaffiliated membership to contact Governor Stitt at (405) 521-2342, select option 0, and urge him to grant Mr. Jones’ alleged guilt in the 1999 murder conviction and that his death sentence should be commuted to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole. We ask that Governor Stitt heed the recommendation of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board that sufficient doubt exists regarding Mr. urges Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt to grant a stay of execution and clemency for death row inmate Julius Jones, who is set to be executed on tomorrow, Nov. SEEKING A STAY OF EXECUTION AND A GRANT OF CLEMENCY FOR DEATH ROW INMATE JULIUS JONESĪlpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. STATEMENT OF ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC.
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