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Innocence claim and execution pace prompting capital questions in Ohio

By Douglas A. Berman

The top headline on this front page of this Sunday's Columbus Disptach asks "Timeout From Death?" and follows with this subheading "Questions in the case of a man heading toward execution prompt calls for a review of Death Row cases - and a possible moratorium."  Here is the start of a lengthy article: The former high-school football star sits with shackles around his thick legs and says things you would expect from a man on Death Row. He is innocent.  Someone else shot and killed those three people.  He has a good alibi.  Local police poisoned witnesses against him.  The photo lineup of suspects was rigged.  There was a phantom witness. "I can't see me being put to death," said Kevin Keith, 46, who is scheduled for execution Sept. 15 and the requisite clemency hearing this week...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 08, 2010 (boomark / email).