A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday allowed the state to proceed with the scheduled lethal injection executions of five death row inmates.
The five inmates include Julius Jones, who was convicted of murdering an insurance executive in his parents’ driveway after the victim returned from a back-to-school shopping trip with his daughters. His case gained prominence after a television series in 2018 highlighted his claim of innocence. A DNA test initiated by his defense team the same year further linked Jones to the 1999 murder.
