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More on the Kevin Keith Case

By Steve Hall

Mark Godsey, Director of the Ohio Innocence Project and University of Cincinnati Law prof, has issued a statement.The Ohio Innocence Project urges Governor Strickland to grant clemency to Kevin Keith, and to remove him from death row, because the execution of an inmate where serious questions of possible innocence remain is an injustice that can never be corrected.  The Ohio Innocence Project is neither for nor against capital punishment.  But no Ohio citizen, regardless of political persuasion, should tolerate the execution of an inmate in a case where serious questions of guit or innocence continue to linger.The parole board acknowledged in its decision that the alternative suspect had the same motive to seek revenge as Keith, but it ignored the evidence showing the alternative suspect told witnesses of his plan to commit this crime before it occurred...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 20, 2010 (boomark / email).