Shams Charania Praised After Breaking The Julius Jones News On Twitter

NBA insider Shams Charania is flexing his muscle yet, again.

This time, Charania dipped his toes into the political news waters – releasing information on the Julius Jones case.

Jones is the Oklahoma man who was set to be executed on Thursday in relation to a 1999 murder that he remains adamant he did not commit.

However, prior to the execution, Shams Charania broke the news that Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitts was stepping in to nix the plan.

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The death sentence of Julius Jones in Oklahoma has been commuted and Jones will not be executed, Governor Kevin Stitts says. Jones will receive life sentence instead, with no parole.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 18, 2021

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Shortly after the news was dropped, Shams Charania was the talk of Twitter for his ability to break news that doesn’t even pertain to his area of expertise.

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Shams is wild dawg https://t.co/E66gofgTOr

— CJ (@CJenkins_Wx) November 18, 2021

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Was not expecting to find out about this from Shams https://t.co/w5SxLE1ARq

— Phill 🥶 (@MeekPhill_) November 18, 2021

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Shams tweeting random news items will never get old https://t.co/zMkZyig7uu

— Shehan Jeyarajah (@ShehanJeyarajah) November 18, 2021

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Shams occasionally venturing into non-sports news for that extra bit of clout is amazing

— Nick Stellini (@StelliniTweets) November 18, 2021

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i think shams was the first to break that trump had covid lmao he's ben doing this

— rush 🥉 (@420joke) November 18, 2021

While Shams Charania wasn’t directly reporting on Julius Jones, many athletes have spoken out in favor of the death sentence commute.

Just yesterday, Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield got choked up when calling on the Oklahoma governor to do the right thing.

“It’s not something that’s easy to talk about. Been trying to get the facts stated and the truth to be told for awhile now. Tried and tried. It’s a shame that its gotten this far, we’re 24 hours away … Hopefully God can intervene and handle it correctly and do the things he needs to do,” he said.

Baker Mayfield joined Steve Kerr, Russell Westbrook, and many other athletes who will be happy that Julius Jones was not sentenced to death today.

Now, they’ll set their sights on getting rid of that life sentence…

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