Published 19 November 2021 at 09.34
Domestic. Oklahoma's governor pardoned the 41-year-old killer Julius Jones just four hours before he was to be executed with a poison injection.
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“After a devout consideration and review of material presented by all sides in the case, I have decided to convert Julius Jones' sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of conditional release,” said Governor Kevin Stitt in a press release. .
Earlier on Thursday, the man's lawyer filed a request to temporarily stop the execution because the poison injections carry a risk of suffering and pain that they believe cannot be accepted.
At the end of October, the governor executed a 60-year-old man with a poison injection that caused him to vomit and shake from convulsions before death occurred.
The United States executes between 20 and 25 people a year and is the only western country to carry out executions. There is no other country in North or South America that applies the death penalty.