She's also an avid film lover, screenwriter, and diehard Taylor Swift fan (she'll drop tidbits about Taylor into her articles any chance she gets.) Based in New York, Gina graduated from The New School in 2020 with a BFA in Screen Studies and later completed a Film & TV Essentials Course with Yellowbrick and NYU Tisch School Of The Arts. She fell in love with reality television in the early 2000s and developed much of her personality from watching Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie on The Simple Life. Gina Wurtz is a Reality TV Writer for Screenrant and joined the team in October 2021. Hopefully, in the future, Kim will stay passionate and keep fighting for justice. Though it's unfair to tell someone not to live their life, it is far more empowering to see Kim using her voice to help others who are not as fortunate as she is. However, when the reality star does use her platform for good, she makes waves. For example, Kim angered many of her followers when she partied on a private island for her 40th birthday in the midst of a pandemic. Kim is often criticized for her privileged lifestyle and sometimes tone-deaf Instagram posts. It's refreshing to see the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star using her platform to make a difference in the world. In April 2019, Kim announced she'd be following in the footsteps of her late father, Robert Kardashian, and studying to become a lawyer.
Kim has also helped free Judith Negron, Tynice Hall, and Crystal Munoz, amongst many others. In 2018, she worked with former president Trump to free Alice Marie Johnson, who was initially sentenced to life in prison for a nonviolent drug charge. Stitt to take him off of death row and accept the recommendation of his Pardon and Parole Board.In the past few years, Kim has worked passionately on prison reform projects. However, the Pardon and Parole Board also plays a role in this system, and in this case, they have recommended clemency. Our judicial system gives judges and juries the responsibility to determine guilt and sentencing.
“More than two decades later, however, I have many constituents who still have questions. “Paul Howell’s murder was a terrible tragedy for his family and this entire community,” Stinson said. Stinson probably made the purest argument for mercy. The bill failed to get a floor hearing in the House but is still available to be heard next session. The unit would make one last ditch effort to investigate cases where a person sentenced to death is making a plausible claim of actual innocence supported by information or evidence not previously presented and capable of being investigated or resolved. McDugle authored House Bill 1551 last session that would authorize the Pardon and Parole Board to establish a Conviction Integrity Review Unit to review convictions of inmates who have received death sentences. Kevin McDugle, R-Broken Arrow, while stopping short of opposing the death penalty outright, is concerned with the way it is applied. Logan Phillips, R-Mounds, has also taken the time to look into the case and is worried that the state may be executing an innocent man. All three have doubts, based on concerns from constituents and other information, about whether the judge, jury, and appellate system got it right. Garry Mize and Preston Stinson both represent the Edmond area where the crime was committed, and Stillwater Rep. It’s unlikely they’ll gain any political advantage for their actions. In the law-and-order atmosphere that exists in the moment, it takes some courage for them to speak out. Executive clemency is solely his call.Īn unusual circumstance of the Jones case is the request of five Republican House members who are urging Stitt to grant clemency. Unless he chooses to say - and perhaps even if he does say something - no one may ever know the true basis for his decision. This may be one of those things Stitt never anticipated when he decided he wanted to be governor. Seldom does one person have the ability, purely as a matter of forbearance, to spare the life of another human being.
Stitt will need to decide this week about whether to follow the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board and grant clemency to Julius Jones who was convicted of murder in Oklahoma County and sentenced to death.