Death Row Inmate Saved Hours Before Execution After Oklahoma Governor Grants Clemency

Julius Jones is seen in a Feb. 5, 2018, file photograph. Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones, a death row inmate, just hours before he was scheduled to die.

The Republican governor intervened less than four hours before 41-year-old Jones was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.