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Ohio Exoneree Speaks Out on the Kevin Keith Case

By Steve Hall

Today's Columbus Dispatch carries, "State must prevent wrongful convictions."  I's written by Dale Johnston, who was exonerated and freed in 1990 after spending five years on Ohio's death row.I commend The Dispatch for its support of the new criminal-justice-reform law, aimed at helping prevent wrongful convictions from occurring ("Improving justice," Dispatch editorial, Thursday).I know firsthand the horror of being an innocent person facing execution. Before being exonerated in 1990, I spent more than five years on Ohio's death row for murders I did not commit. But not all mistakes are caught in time. Kevin Keith, for example, who is facing execution in Ohio this September, has new and compelling evidence of his innocence, but no court has considered the entirety of his innocence claims...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).