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Stitt’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Forbes. Stitt must decide whether to commute Jones’ sentence or let him be executed Thursday. Jones, along with other plaintiffs, have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol.

Grant’s execution was the first following a six-year pause where the state said it worked to implement safeguards to make the process more humane, HuffPost reports. Last month, the state conducted a third botched execution that left John Marion Grant convulsing and vomiting as he died.

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Oklahoma has come under fire for a series of botched executions for inmates on death row. Attorneys Ben Crump and Eliza Orlins also urged for Stitt to grant clemency for Jones. Rapper Common and NBA players Blake Griffin, Trae Young and Russell Westbrook have also spoken out about the charges against Jones, Newsweek reports. The series reportedly caught the eye of Kim Kardashian West, who met with Jones in 2020.

Jones’ case was included in The Last Defense, a 2018 docu-series produced by Viola Davis that examined his innocence. Jones and sentence him to death.” Key Background

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In a January 2019 petition to the Supreme Court, lawyers asked whether evidence that one juror called the trial a “waste of time” and used the N-word to refer to Jones “establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Justice for Julius, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Critics have also argued racial discrimination played a role in Jones’ conviction. Jordan, who testified against Jones at the trial, received a plea deal and served 15 years in prison for his role as the getaway driver. Jones did not match the description given by the lone witness of the crime-but Jones’ co-defendant, Christopher Jordan did, the Innocence Project claims.

Jones had an alibi on the night of the murder, but his legal team failed to present his alibi at the trial and did not call Jones’ alibi witnesses to testify, according to The Death Penalty Information Center. West wrote in a series of tweets Tuesday about the “tragic miscarriage of justice” in Jones’ case, which rapper J Cole shared, calling the evidence that Jones is innocent “overwhelming.” Chief Critic

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