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News Coverage of Kevin Keith's Clemency Hearing

By Steve Hall

The Columbus Dispatch reports, "Supporters turn out to appeal for condemned man," by Jim Nash.The pattern of tire treads in the snow, the memory of a 4-year-old child and whether the word cripple is synonymous with kill could determine whether Kevin Keith dies next month for a triple murder in Bucyrus more than 16 years ago.Keith, now 46, is scheduled to be put to death Sept. 15 for murdering two women and a 4-year-old girl, and wounding three others, while spraying an apartment with bullets to send a warning to a drug informant.His case has attracted an unusually large coalition of supporters, including the president of the National Innocence Network, former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro, lawyers and a retired Columbus cop. All are convinced that jurors acted rashly in convicting Keith, ignored evidence implicating another man and overlooked factors that suggested Keith's innocence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 12, 2010 (boomark / email).