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Post by unkelremus on Jun 9, 2011 5:16:52 GMT -6
Ohio governor spares condemned killer of 2 men scheduled to die next week for 1989 slayings Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday spared a condemned killer, saying he had no doubt the man was involved in a double killing but that the details of his participation were “frustratingly unclear." Shawn Hawkins is the 1st death row inmate to receive mercy from Kasich since the Republican took office in January, and the seventh to be spared since Ohio resumed executions in 1999. He had been slated to be executed next week but instead will spend the rest of his life in prison. Attorneys for Hawkins had raised questions about evidence that sent him to death row, and the Ohio Parole Board recommended last month that Kasich spare Hawkins. Hawkins’ attorney Anthony Covatta said Wednesday that Hawkins and his family were “grateful to Gov. Kasich for his wise and merciful decision in sparing Shawn from the sentence of death." Kasich said there was no doubt Hawkins played “a significant, material role” in the 1989 slayings of 18-year-old Terrance Richard and 19-year-old Diamond Marteen in Cincinnati’s Mount Healthy neighborhood. “Precise details of that role are frustratingly unclear to the point that Ohio shouldn’t deliver the ultimate penalty in this case,” Kasich said in a statement. “Therefore, I am ordering that he spend the rest of his life in prison and have no chance of ever getting out." www.smu.edu
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Post by moretoasts on Jun 9, 2011 5:44:17 GMT -6
While I salute and plaud this decision made by Kasich, i Wonder how many times the case of this guy has been viewed and re-viewed by courts at all levels.
If "Precise details of that role are frustratingly unclear ", why the hell his death sentence went ahead through all hearings to the point that this guys had to die next week?
Should the involvment of the defendant be clear beyond any doubt? How many courts are necessary to estabilish that the case is unclear? The only thing clear here, is the fact that if the Gov. or the Parole Board needs to spare a defendant after years over years of hearings and appeals, becouse the sentence is manifestly unfair, the whole system is flawed and dp-prone
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Post by arizonavet on Jun 9, 2011 7:17:23 GMT -6
While I salute and plaud this decision made by Kasich, i Wonder how many times the case of this guy has been viewed and re-viewed by courts at all levels. If "Precise details of that role are frustratingly unclear ", why the hell his death sentence went ahead through all hearings to the point that this guys had to die next week? Should the involvment of the defendant be clear beyond any doubt? How many courts are necessary to estabilish that the case is unclear? The only thing clear here, is the fact that if the Gov. or the Parole Board needs to spare a defendant after years over years of hearings and appeals, becouse the sentence is manifestly unfair, the whole system is flawed and dp-prone People keep looking for absolutism in the death penalty. One man's "cristal clear" is another man's "frustratingly unclear". That's just the way it is, and always has been...always will be....no big "revelation" there. What is "manifestly unfair" is that the victims family will have to look over their shoulder for the rest of their lives because this POS who has already taken the lives of their loved ones, KNOWS that the family wants him to stay in jail the rest of his life, if not execute him. They are his mortal enemy now. "Prison the rest of his life"? Not likely....watch, this murdering drug dealer will be back on the streets, after creating mayhem in the prison. He was caught with finger print evidence and an eye witness. No doubt the world would be a much better place with him gone.....now Ohio tax payers, after all those expensive appeals, will have to foot the bill for at least 20 more years to come...then watch him get out and continue his killin ways. Now that's unfair.
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Post by fuglyville on Jun 9, 2011 17:47:17 GMT -6
As an anti, I'm opposed to capital punishment at all. But as long as there are some doubt, I can't see how anyone in their right mind would want him dead. The worries of the victim's family are the responsibility of social services and health care professionals, not the criminal justice system. As long as he's alive, there are chances that he might get out if proven innocent - you lose that opportunity if you kill him. And that should matter more than the lust for blood.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2011 18:36:55 GMT -6
As an anti, I'm opposed to capital punishment at all. But as long as there are some doubt, I can't see how anyone in their right mind would want him dead. The worries of the victim's family are the responsibility of social services and health care professionals, not the criminal justice system. As long as he's alive, there are chances that he might get out if proven innocent - you lose that opportunity if you kill him. And that should matter more than the lust for blood. If you knew anything as an MVS, you would know that social services has nothing to do with us. Of course we all know that you are no MVS but just supposing you were what health care professionals did you see? IOW, what group set you up with their brainwasher errrrrrrrr doctors to give you the rose colored frickin glasses that you use to look at your murderer gods?
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Post by whitediamonds on Jun 9, 2011 18:38:24 GMT -6
No doubt he played a role in the slayings, yet details if still unclear as to what extent, I agree a good decision, the rest of his life in prison is reasonable.
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Post by moonlight on Jun 11, 2011 6:23:41 GMT -6
well, thats a really bad day for justice and law enforcement. So we all may think Hawkins will really stay for the rest of his life in prison indeed?
Fact is his attorneys are planing to get him out of prison in couple of years. Hawkins himself said he hopes to be a free man again.
The whole thing about life without parole is one big sham.
I just wonder is there is any legal way to overturn the govenror's decision and sent Hawkings back to death row.
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Post by Breka on Jun 13, 2011 2:27:23 GMT -6
While I salute and plaud this decision made by Kasich, i Wonder how many times the case of this guy has been viewed and re-viewed by courts at all levels. If "Precise details of that role are frustratingly unclear ", why the hell his death sentence went ahead through all hearings to the point that this guys had to die next week? Should the involvment of the defendant be clear beyond any doubt? How many courts are necessary to estabilish that the case is unclear? The only thing clear here, is the fact that if the Gov. or the Parole Board needs to spare a defendant after years over years of hearings and appeals, becouse the sentence is manifestly unfair, the whole system is flawed and dp-prone Even I am a supporter of the death penalty - but my motto is is "In dubio pro reo" "In doubts for the accused" Only in 100% proof with no doubts about the guilt of the offender the death penalty should be imposed and so I do support the appeal system - as far the case and trial is concerned !
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