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Supreme Court Gets Hamilton County Death Penalty Case

Court To Determine If Disabled Standard Should Apply In 1992 CaseWLWT.comupdated 5:50 p.m. ET, Fri., April 24, 2009WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a 1992 murder case from Hamilton County.Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray is asking the court to reverse a lower court decision that set aside the death sentence imposed on Michael Bies for his murder of a 10 year-old Cincinnati boy.Bies and an accomplice lured Aaron Raines into an abandoned building and bludgeoned him to death. A Hamilton County jury convicted Bies of aggravated murder, attempted rape and kidnapping, and further recommended a sentence of death. The Ohio Supreme Court had affirmed the conviction and death sentence in 1996.In a 2002 case, Atkins v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).