After a six-year moratorium on the death penalty because of a series of botched lethal injections, Oklahoma officials announced they would execute seven men in quick succession.
OKLAHOMA CITY — After a six-year moratorium on the death penalty following a series ofOklahoma officials announced in August they would seek execution dates for seven condemned men . By the next month, their executions were scheduled, leading some death penalty supporters to believe the state's executions would resume posthaste.
Stitt's offer of clemency — commuting Jones' sentence from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole — came just weeks after criticism and questions about the state's three-drug execution protocol were renewed following the Oct.
Stitt has not said publicly why he agreed to commute Jones’ death sentence, and he has not commented on the parole board’s recommendation to commute Stouffer’s sentence. Don Heath, chairman of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, said Jones’ options appear to be limited.
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