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Ohio Governor Faces Rare Clemency Recommendation

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an AP report by Thomas Sheeran in Saturday's Dayton Daily News.  LINKOhio Gov. Ted Strickland is in an unusual position: Should he listen to advisers who suggest he spare the life of a death row inmate or to family and friends of a 68-year-old Hubbard woman killed in a murder-for-hire plot gone awry? In a rare move, the Ohio Parole Board recommended the governor grant clemency to Jason Getsy, 33, who is scheduled to die Aug. 18 for the 1995 slaying of Ann Serafino. Serafino's family and friends have sent the governor a petition asking him to rejectthe recommendation. Shortly after taking office in 2007, Democrat Strickland said he was uncomfortable with the death penalty. "I hope never to be comfortable with it," he said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).