Innocence
,Clemency
,Public Opinion
,Mar 02, 2021
As supporters of Oklahoma death-row prisoner Julius Jones submitted more than six million signatures supporting his petition for clemency, new evidence emerged that another man had committed the killing that sent…
Innocence
,Race
,Clemency
,Jun 19, 2020
As high-profile support mounts in the campaign for clemency for death-row prisoner Julius Jones (pictured), the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has turned to the prosecutors who are seeking his execution — the Ok…
Clemency
,Jan 18, 2022
Adam Luck (pictured), the Chairman of Oklahoma’s Board of Pardons and Parole, has resigned from the board under pressure from Governor Kevin Stitt because of Luck’s votes in favor…
Arbitrariness
,Innocence
,Race
,Aug 29, 2018
The Congressional Black Caucus has urged Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin to review the case of death-row prisoner Julius Jones (pictured) and to …
Race
,United States Supreme Court
,Feb 11, 2019
Georgia death-row prisoner Keith Tharpe (pictured, left) and Oklahoma death-row prisoner
Upcoming Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Oct 18, 2021
In a decision with potential to vacate a number of Oklahoma execution dates, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has held that a lower federal court abused its discretion in dismissing six death-row prisoners from a lawsuit challenging…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,New Voices
,Aug 15, 2018
Calling Oklahoma “the notorious home of ‘Hang ’Em High’ executions,” conservative commentator and Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin (pictured) has urged the state to adopt sytemic reforms to address its “wretch…
Innocence
,Race
,Clemency
,Oct 18, 2019
Lawyers for Oklahoma death-row prisoner Julius Jones (pictured) have petitioned the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board for clemency, arguing that Jones …
Innocence
,Race
,Representation
,Clemency
,Feb 25, 2022
In the February 2022 episode of Discussions with DPIC, federal public defender, Amanda Bass (pictured, right), and Justice for Julius advocate Cece Jones-Davis (pictured, left) speak with Death Penalty In…
Innocence
,Clemency
,Mar 09, 2021
Julius Jones (pictured) will receive a “stage two” commutation hearing after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3 – 1 to advance his commutation application past the initial summary review stage. Jones maintains his innocence in the 1999 mur…
Public Opinion
,Jul 07, 2021
A survey of 500 registered voters in Oklahoma, conducted June 24 – 28, 2021 by the Oklahoma polling firm Amber Integrated, has found that 60% of those who said they knew anything about the case of death-row prisoner…
Innocence
,Clemency
,New Voices
,Sep 16, 2020
As the 2020 National Football League (NFL) season’s opening weekend began on Sunday, September 13, end zones were painted with the words “End Racism” and “It Takes All of Us.” Six NFL teams remained in locker rooms for the Nationa…
Innocence
,Mental Illness
,Race
,Clemency
,Lethal Injection
,Sep 02, 2021
Despite the pendency of a trial on the constitutionality of the state’s lethal-injection protocol, newly appointed Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor has asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to set execution dates for…
Executions Overview
,Feb 18, 2022
When Oklahoma executed Gilbert Postelle on February 17, 2022, it came with a dubious distinction. The intellectually impaired man who was 18 years old at the time of his offense became the 44th person …
Innocence
,Mental Illness
,Representation
,Clemency
,Upcoming Executions
,Sep 21, 2021
After more than six years with no executions and with a trial pending on the constitutionality of the state’s lethal injection process, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has issued death warrants setting seven execution dates…
Clemency
,Upcoming Executions
,Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Dec 07, 2021
Oklahoma executed Bigler Jobe Stouffer II (pictured, at his clemency hearing) on December 9, 2021, after Governor Kevin Stitt rejecting a pardons board recommendation to commute his sentence to li…
Arbitrariness
,Mental Illness
,Lethal Injection
,Jan 27, 2022
Oklahoma carried out the first execution of 2022 in the U.S. on January 27, injecting Donald Grant (pictured, at his clemency hearing) with a three-drug chemical cocktail whose constitutionality is the subject of …
United States Supreme Court
,Executions Overview
,Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Oct 28, 2021
Within hours of a partisan vote in the United States Supreme Court lifting an appeals court stay, Oklahoma executed John Grant on October 28, 2021, ending a six-year hiatus brought on by a series …
Innocence
,Race
,Clemency
,Nov 18, 2021
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has granted clemency to death-row prisoner Julius Jones (pictured). In an order announced four hours before his scheduled execution on November 18, 2021, Stitt
Lethal Injection
,Feb 10, 2022
Oklahoma is paying $15,000 per execution, plus $1,000 for each day of training, to an unnamed doctor to participate in the process of putting state prisoners to death. Under the agreement, the doctor stood to receive an estimated …
Innocence
,Race
,Representation
,Clemency
,Upcoming Executions
,Nov 03, 2021
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has for a second time recommended that Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt grant clemency to death-row prisoner Julius Jones (pictured during the clemency hearing). …
Innocence
,Clemency
,Sep 14, 2021
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has voted to recommend that Governor Kevin Stitt commute the death sentence imposed on Julius Jones (pictured) by an Oklahoma County jury in 1999 to a sentenc…
Race
,Sentencing Data
,Jul 27, 2017
Newly available evidence shows that Oklahoma’s death penalty unconstitutionally discriminates on the basis of race, according to petitions filed by lawyers seeking to overturn the death sentences imposed on two African-American de…
Innocence
,Race
,New Voices
,Apr 25, 2018
Three powerful new documentaries that explore the modern death penalty in the United States are set to premiere this April. Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis and Julius Tennon are executive producers of The Last Defense…
Innocence
,Race
,Jun 13, 2018
A new documentary airing on ABC tells the stories of Darlie Lynn Routier and Julius Jones, two death-row prisoners who have long argued they were wrongfully convicted. The Last Defense, produced …
Arbitrariness
,Race
,United States Supreme Court
,Jan 24, 2019
The United States Supreme Court has declined to review challenges brought by two Oklahoma death-row prisoners who alleged that their death sentences were the unconstitutional product of racial bias.
Mental Illness
,Clemency
,Upcoming Executions
,Dec 03, 2021
The Oklahoma Attorney General’s office has agreed to a stay of execution for a severely mentally ill death-row prisoner who may be incompetent to be executed, while the state’s Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency to two other …
