Julius jones granted clemency8/6/2023 More than 30 death-row inmates have been plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit challenging Oklahoma’s execution protocols. Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor’s office told Dillon Richards of KOCO that O’Connor will be appealing the decision to the U.S. The problem with granting summary judgment on this basis is that we find nothing in the relevant case law that specifically requires a prisoner to designate a method of execution to be used in his case by “checking a box” when the prisoner has already identified in his complaint the very same alternative methods given as choices on the form. The only real difference between those plaintiffs who survived summary judgment to go to trial and these Appellants, who lost on summary judgment and now face imminent execution, was that the other plaintiffs complied with the district court’s instruction to supplement their interrogatory responses by specifying an execution method or methods to be used to carry out their death sentences the supplemental responses listed the same four alternative methods as choices that were identified by all plaintiffs (…) Appellants, citing religious scruples about assisting in what they viewed as “suicide,” refused to answer the interrogatory by choosing one or more of the four alternative methods to be used in their particular case. In overturning the district court and granting the stay, two appellate court judges - Michael Murphy and Nancy Moritz - wrote in their court order that Grant and Jones should be allowed to make the same challenges as other plaintiffs in a pending lawsuit challenging Oklahoma’s execution protocols: Those issues will be carefully reviewed by the court at the trial scheduled in February.” “Today’s order should prevent the state from carrying out executions until the federal district court addresses the ‘credible expert criticism’ it identified in Oklahoma’s execution procedures. Grant’s execution on Thursday,” Dale Baich, an attorney for the death row plaintiffs, said in a press release. “The Tenth Circuit did the right thing by blocking Mr. Grant’s clemency application was denied Oct. Jones had his clemency hearing postponed this week by the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board to allow pending appeals to be resolved.Ĭlemency hearings cannot be held without a set execution date. District Judge Stephen Friot’s denial of a motion by Grant, Jones and three other inmates Monday afternoon. Grant was set to be executed Thursday following U.S. Three other death-row inmates who were plaintiffs in the appeal did not receive stays of their executions. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily granted John Marion Grant and Julius Jones stays of their pending executions today, stalling Oklahoma’s first attempt to carry out the death penalty in more than six years. The article below remains in its original form from Oct. Supreme Court vacated the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals’ stay for the executions of John Marion Grant and Julius Jones.
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