A man scheduled to be executed in September for the 1996 killing of a University of Oklahoma dance student plans to reject his chance for a clemency hearing, saying there is little hope the state's Republican governor would spare his life.
Anthony Sanchez, 44, said in a telephone interview Thursday from Oklahoma's death row that even in the rare case when the five-member Pardon and Parole Board recommends clemency, Gov. Kevin Stitt is unlikely to grant it.
“They went out there and poured their hearts out, man,” Sanchez said. “Why would I want to be a part of anything like that, if you're going to sit there and get these guys' hopes up?”Stitt granted clemency to a condemned inmate once, commuting Julius Jones death sentence in 2021 to life in prison without parole.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in April rejected a request from Sanchez's attorneys for an evidentiary hearing in which they claimed Sanchez's late father, Thomas Glen Sanchez, was the actual killer of 21-year-old Juli Busken. A private investigator hired by an anti-death penalty group contends the DNA evidence may have been contaminated and that an inexperienced lab technician miscommunicated the strength of the evidence to a jury.
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