Thread by @chrisgeidner

Julius Jones will not be executed, but per the Oklahoma governor’s order nor will he be eligible, ever, to be let out of prison.

https://twitter.com/govstitt/status/1461401100519673858

Here’s the relevant part:

The ability of the governor to put this particular sort of condition on the grant of clemency could (and possibly will) be challenged, but courts definitely have allowed certain conditions to be placed on grants of clemency in the past.

This is one of the wildest conditions I saw in my earlier clemency research. Nixon’s authority to do this never, ultimately, got resolved by SCOTUS because Hoffa disappeared.

Here’s where that’s from: buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…

The specifics of the Oklahoma Constitution, Oklahoma laws, and state court precedents would control most of this discussion — up to the point where someone (Jones?) challenged the federal constitutionality of Oklahoma law permitting such conditions (if it is found to do so).