OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Oklahoma court has dismissed the latest appeal of a death row inmate convicted in the killing of an Edmond insurance executive 19 years ago.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Friday rejected post-conviction relief for 38-year-old Julius Darius Jones, who was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to die for the July 1999 shooting death of 45-year-old Paul Howell.
Jones, who is black, claimed in the appeal that newly discovered evidence had established that a juror at his trial in Oklahoma County harbored racial animosity toward him. The court says similar claims have been previously reviewed and rejected.
People were interested in these podcasts
Jones was a 19-year-old honor student on a scholarship at the University of Oklahoma at the time of Howell’s death. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 rejected Jones’ appeal.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.