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Trumbull County Judge again denies mental retardation hearing for Andre Williams:  Ed Runyan has this confusing article in the Youngstown Vindicator, entitled "Killer isn't retarded, Trumbull judge rules," noting Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge W. Wyatt McKay's second denial of a request for a mental retardation hearing for Ohio death row inmate Andre Williams. Excerpt:A Trumbull County judge has once again ruled against the request of 39-year-old death row inmate Andre Williams, who asked to be deemed ineligible for the death penalty on grounds that he is retarded. Williams was convicted in 1989 of killing George Melnick, 65, and severely beating Melnick's wife, Katherine, 65, in Warren. Judge W. Wyatt McKay of common pleas court ruled Tuesday that none of the evidence he received since the August 1988 crime or after the landmark federal ruling in 2002 banning the execution of mentally retarded defendants indicates that Williams should be spared execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Ohio Death Penalty Information on September 12, 2007 (boomark / email).