“For not to take their recommendation, not just once, but twice, … that was so disheartening.” Bass, who was with Jones helping him prepare his last message to his family and his supporters, had similarly mixed feelings. “We had fought so hard to bring the issues in Julius’ case … to public awareness,” Jones-Davis said. Jones-Davis and Bass describe how Jones, his family, and his supporters felt when Governor Stitt spared Jones’ life but rejected the pardons board’s recommendation that he be resentenced to life with the possibility of parole. Jones-Davis, who is no relation to Julius Jones, is the founder and director of the #JusticeforJulius coalition, which led efforts to educate the public about Jones’ case and obtained more than 6.5 million signatures on a petition calling for clemency. Jones-Davis is an ordained minister and an advocate for criminal legal reform. She has been part of Jones’ Oklahoma legal team since 2016. They discuss how incompetent representation and prosecutorial misconduct sent Jones to death row in Oklahoma County, how advocacy on his innocence and about racial bias in his case led to the commutation of his death sentence four hours before it was to be carried out, and what comes next in the continuing efforts to set Jones free.īass is a supervisory assistant federal public defender in the Capital Habeas Unit of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Arizona. 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 Information Center Managing Director Anne Holsinger about the questionable conviction and near execution of former Oklahoma death-row prisoner, Julius Jones.
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