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By Steve Hall

Alan Johnson reports, "Past prisons chief urges clemency for condemned killer," in today's Columbus Dispatch. Former Ohio prisons director Terry Collins and a Cincinnati civil-rights attorney are jointly urging Gov. John Kasich to spare the life of condemned killer Clarence Carter. Carter, 49, is scheduled to be executed April 12 unless Kasich or the courts intervene. The Ohio Parole Board unanimously recommended against clemency for Carter. A letter to Kasich jointly signed by Collins and attorney Alphonse Gerhardstein and obtained by The Dispatch said the death of inmate Johnny Allen resulted from a "jailhouse fight" with Carter in 1988 and does not warrant the death penalty. "It is much more likely that this was an inmate fight that got tragically out of hand," Collins and Gerhardstein wrote...continue to full post

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