However, numerous independent organizations and citizens have looked at the case and found additional troubling aspects. Prosecutors say they have the right guy, pointing to Jordan’s testimony (albeit as part of a plea deal) as well as the murder weapon being found wrapped in a red bandana with Jones’ DNA on it in a crawl space of Jones’ parents home. Jones’ lawyers called no witnesses at his trial. He argues that an eyewitness description of the gunman matches Jordan, not him, that three separate inmates who served time with Jordan said he admitted to them he committed the crime, and that his public defenders failed to present his alibi (that he was home having dinner with his parents and sister on the night of the murder) to the jury. Jones was 19 at the time and an engineering student at OU planning to walk onto the Sooner basketball team.
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Jones has maintained his innocence throughout and said a co-defendant, Christopher Jordan, who accepted a plea deal as the getaway driver and was released after 15 years in prison, was the real killer and framed him for the crime. Jones, 41, is awaiting execution Thursday for the fatal shooting of Paul Howell during a 1999 carjacking in Edmond, a suburb of Oklahoma City. Baker Mayfield was emotional when asked about Julius Jones, who is facing execution on Thursday in Oklahoma after 19 years on death row.
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