He said he fell asleep waiting for Jordan to pick him up so that he could go to his Norman apartment and get some clothes. Jones said he was at his parents’ house playing games with family the night Howell was murdered. He said as a freshman at the University of Oklahoma he impregnated a girl and school was no longer a priority. Jones said he stole to have things to impress girls and stand out. Much of Jones’ prepared statement Monday centered on his youth sports activities, his upbringing under a mother who worked as a public school teacher and a father who he said served in the military and worked in construction. He claims multiple men who served time with Jordan said Jordan regularly confessed to killing Howell. Jones claims Jordan is the actual killer and framed him to get a deal. Under a plea agreement, Jordan pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit a robbery for his role and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Jones was directly implicated at trial in the fatal shooting by his friend, Christopher Jordan. Prosecutors say Jones’ own trial attorneys testified Jones said he wasn't home. He also has claimed he was never given a chance to share his alibi - and that he was at home with his siblings and parents when Howell was murdered. Jones has claimed the first time he saw Howell was on a TV news report. Prosecutors on Monday played one prison-phone recording of Jones allegedly claiming to be Grant, who was later executed. The investigator said Jones repeatedly used other inmates’ PIN numbers to make calls after having the privilege suspended for misconduct violations. His supporters include celebrity Kim Kardashian, who visited him last year at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.Ī state investigator in October told the Pardon and Parole Board that Jones has used his notoriety for financial gain through business calls from prison that were about marketing and branding concepts, the investigator reported in an affidavit. Millions signed a petition in Jones' support after ABC in 2018 aired the documentary series, "The Last Defense," about his innocence claim. His innocence claim has attracted support from celebrities and well-known athletes. “I was not involved in the planning of this robbery, I was not present during this robbery, and I did not know that anyone had been killed until the day after Mr. Seated next to his lawyer Monday at a table in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Jones was dressed in a dark red prison uniform as he read from a prepared statement. He claims he is innocent and was framed by the actual killer. Julius Jones maintains innocence claim in speech to parole board The inmates specifically complained a sedative, midazolam, does not work and will not prevent them from feeling horrible pain,Īn Oklahoma City federal judge plans to hold a trial next year over the legal challenge. He had complained in a lawsuit - along with Jones and 30 other death row inmates - that the lethal injection procedure violates a constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Grant convulsed repeatedly and vomited as the lethal injection procedure began, witnesses said. Officials said afterward the same mistake had been made in an execution in January that year. Authorities stopped that execution after a doctor discovered the wrong deadly drug - potassium acetate - had been supplied. The high court’s 5-3 decision potentially cleared the way for several executions in the next few months.īefore Grant was put to death, Oklahoma’s most recent scheduled execution was Sept. Supreme Court allowed his execution to proceed after Grant and Jones were initially given stays the day before by the 10th U.S.
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