Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

Kevin Keith Death Sentence Commuted -- With Updates

By Steve Hall

The Columbus Dispatch reports the breaking news, "Strickland commutes death row inmate's sentence to life without parole."  It's filed by Alan Johnson. Gov. Ted Strickland has spared the life of Kevin Keith, who was scheduled to be executed in two weeks for a triple murder in Bucyrus in 1994. Strickland this afternoon commuted Keith's sentence to life without the possibility of parole. In doing so, Strickland rejected an 8-0 recommendation from the Ohio Parole Board that Keith should be executed. Keith, 46, was to be lethally injected Sept. 15 for murdering two women and a four-year-old girl by spraying a Bucyrus apartment with bullets as revenge against a drug informant. He has long claimed that he is innocent and sought a full pardon from the governor -- even though courts at all levels have affirmed his guilt and the death sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).