I spoke with Julius Jones' attorney Amanda Bass last week about everything that's going on with Jones' case in the final days.
She said she spoke to Gov. Stitt last week, and said it was "nice to be able to talk with him about all the evidence they put before the PPB."
She said she spoke to Gov. Stitt last week, and said it was "nice to be able to talk with him about all the evidence they put before the PPB."
She also said it was "very helpful" to answer some of Gov. Stitt's questions about the case. "I will say we did have a robust substantive conversation about his case .... we're grateful he's looking at everything."
She praised the PPB and the process of the commutation and clemency hearings. They had fought for years to get their new evidence in front of the courts, she said, but were barred because of Jones' death sentence. The PPB process finally provided them with a setting.
"In many ways (new evidence in a death sentence case) is hard because it's out of your hands. I said we were hopeful we could get a hearing in state court but in the end we did it this way."
I asked her, what about people who are unsure of Jones' innocence? "There's no way to conclude he got a fair trial ... at minimum that should give us pause to execute."
She said that if @GovStitt were to commute Jones' sentence to life without parole, it would still be a win. "We are grateful for whatever mercy Gov. Stitt grants to Julius ... LWOP means Julius lives ... it would be a travesty to kill him and LWOP still means he's alive
I asked her if Julius was aware of the circumstances surrounding John Grant's execution (convulsions, vomiting.) "I think Julius tries not to let his mind go there. He's aware of what happened to Mr. Grant, but for his own mental integrity he tries not to talk about that with us.
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