Free trade impasse - Missing Chinese tennis star - Inmate’s execution halted

Julius Jones was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 2002. Advocates for Mr. Jones have argued that his defense lawyers failed him during his trial and that prosecutors relied too heavily on the testimony of a co-defendant who said that he had seen Mr. Jones commit the crime.
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A state board voted twice to recommend that he be made eligible for parole. [Mr. Jones' execution] was scheduled less than a month after another death-row inmate in Oklahoma vomited and shook for several minutes as he died by lethal injection.
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The governor was under mounting pressure from prominent figures who went beyond liberal critics of the death penalty. Those figures included the chairman of the American Conservative Union; the executive director of the Faith & Freedom Coalition; and several Republican state lawmakers. Oklahoma’s attorney general, John O’Connor, said he appreciated the condition that Mr. Jones never be released from prison.