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Clemency Issues in Ohio, Utah

By Steve Hall

"Strickland has to decide killer's fate," is the title of Alan Johnson's report in the Columbus Dispatch.When does one murderer deserve to live while others die?That's the weighty question the Ohio Parole Board handed Gov. Ted Strickland yesterday by recommending that Richard Nields should not be executed next month for killing his longtime girlfriend, Patricia Newsome, 59, in an alcohol-induced rage on March 27, 1997.The day before Nields' 60th birthday, the board split 4-3 in urging clemency for the Hamilton County man, who is scheduled to be lethally injected June 10 at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville.Strickland, a Democrat, former Methodist minister and prison psychologist, has rejected clemency 14 of 15 times in his first term as governor; all 14 men were executed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 19, 2010 (boomark / email).