#JUSTICE FOR JULIUS JONES JAMES CORDEN DRIVER#

Police were apparently directed to the gun and bandana by Christopher Jordan, who was suspected by police of having a role in the crime as the driver of the vehicle that took Jones to the Howell home. They recovered the bandana and the handgun allegedly used in the shooting from Jones' parents’ home. The police were led to Jones by a rather vague description from the victim's sister that included mention of the gunman having a red bandana.

Police arrested Jones a few days later and charged him with the shooting. As the victim's daughters and sister ran, the shooter drove off in the vehicle. Howell pulled into the driveway after an evening out with his daughters and his sister(who were passengers in the vehicle).īefore anyone got out of the vehicle, a young black man approached the driver and fired a shot from a handgun, killing Howell. Paul Howell, a 45-year-old insurance executive, was shot and killed on the night of July 28, 1999, in the driveway of his home. This extensive appellate review of the case makes the board's recommendation and comment by its chairman - 'I believe in death penalty cases there should be no doubt, and put simply, I have doubts in this case,' - worthy of a closer look as to how we arrived here. The 3 to 1 vote of the board in favor of commutation of the death sentence comes about after lawyers working on behalf of Jones exhausted all appeals and post-conviction challenges, including a petition for a writ of certiorari that the United States Supreme Court denied. Under Oklahoma law, it will be up to the governor to decide whether to allow Jones to spend the rest of his life in prison or allow the original death sentence to remain. A recommendation by the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board earlier this month to commute the death sentence of Julius Jones, who was tried and sentenced to death in the 1999 murder of an Oklahoma City insurance executive, now goes to the governor.

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