August 29, 2012

June 8, 2012

EDITORIAL NEW YORK TIMES
A Stay of Execution
Published: June 6, 2012
    
Doing what law and justice required, Gov. John Kasich of Ohio on Tuesday granted a two-week reprieve to Abdul Awkal, who had been scheduled to be executed Wednesday morning. Mr. Awkal, who was convicted of killing his estranged wife and brother-in-law in 1992, has a long history of severe mental illness and has been found mentally incompetent by three courts in the past 20 years.

June 6, 2012

Article by Andrew Welsh-Huggins:

Republican Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday issued a rare last-minute reprieve for a condemned killer, sparing Abdul Awkal for two weeks to allow a judge to hold a hearing on his mental competency.

May 30, 2012

Please call Governor Kasich's office at 614-466-3555 and urge him to commute Abdul Awkal's death sentence to life without parole.

From Amnesty International: 

EXECUTION NEARS FOR MAN WITH MENTAL ILLNESS

May 29, 2012

Please call Governor Kasich's office at 614-466-3555 and urge him to commute Abdul Awkal's death sentence to life without parole.

Abdul Awkal (pronounced awe-call) is scheduled to be executed June 6 for the 1992 murders of his estranged wife and her brother in Cleveland. The Governor can make his decision at any time, so please call ASAP.

January 26, 2012

Former death row inmate Joe D'Ambrosio, finally free, speaks out

VIEW VIDEO HERE

January 12, 2012

(Reuters) - A federal judge stayed the scheduled Ohio execution of convicted killer Charles Lorraine on Wednesday, ruling the state failed to follow agreed-on reforms for applying the death penalty.

U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost granted Lorraine, 45, a temporary delay in the execution scheduled for January 18, citing the state's failure to follow through on changes it has made to its execution process after nearly eight years of inmate challenges.

January 12, 2012

On Tuesday, a judge upheld a jury's decision that Rayshawn Johnson will die for the 1997 murder of his neighbor. Shannon Marks was beaten to death with a baseball bat in her Evanston home. An appeals court overturned the first death sentence claiming Johnson's lawyers didn't provide information about his childhood.

August 24, 2011

Representative Blair wants pause in executions to be permanent

Link to story HERE

COLUMBUS — There’s been a summer pause in the execution of Ohio’s death row inmates and state Rep. Terry Blair would like to see that pause made permanent.

“I don’t think we have any business in taking another person’s life, even for what we call a legal purpose or what we might refer to as a justified purpose,” the Washington Twp. Republican said.

July 15, 2011