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Ohio (and Sixth Circuit) happenings

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Gov. Ted Strickland in Ohio commuted Kevin Keith‘s death sentence today.  Gov. Strickland used the power to commute a death sentence in the same way, since time immemorial, governors have used it, as the final safety valve in the criminal justice system to prevent the possible execution of the factually innocent. Elsewhere in the Sixth Circuit, people weren’t so lucky: Middlebrooks v. Bell, 05-5904 “District court’s denial of defendant’s petition for habeas relief from his 1989 conviction for capital murder of a fourteen-year-old is affirmed as the district court correctly determined that defendant’s claims are either procedurally defaulted or do not provide a basis for vacating his death sentence under the strictures of AEDPA...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).