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A Clemency Appeal in Ohio

By Steve Hall

Today's Toledo Blade reports, "Killer to ask Ohio governor to spare his life; Family of '94 Toledo victim is against March execution."  It's written by Jim Provance. The family of Johnnie Baston's victim doesn't want him executed, so neither should the state of Ohio, Baston's attorneys will argue Thursday in hopes of convincing Gov. John Kasich to show him mercy.Baston, 36, faces lethal injection on March 10, the first person to be subjected to Ohio's newest execution method of a single massive overdose of the barbiturate pentobarbital. Ohio would become the only state in the nation to use that method."I was opposed to Mr. Baston receiving a death sentence at the time of his trial?," reads an affidavit filed with the Ohio Parole Board on Baston's behalf by Peter Mah, the victim's son from Illinois...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 02, 2011 (boomark / email).