News

May 2, 2006

Contact: Sr. Alice Gerdeman, 859-816-7341 (513-579-8547)
Jim Tobin, 614-560-0654

"1 hour, 26 minutes is unacceptable, inhumane, and another indication of a flawed, unnecessary death system that is irreparably broken," stated Sr. Alice Gerdeman, chairperson of Ohioans to Stop Executions.

We have just heard from Sr. Alice and Eunice and a reporter from the Columbus Dispatch, all of whom are in Lucasville right now.

They have just reported that The State of Ohio had been trying to execute Joseph Clark for nearly an  hour and a half without effect. They were unable to find a vein in which to administer the injection and one vein collapsed. 

Now, at 11:26 am Joseph Clark has just been executed.

Please call Governor Taft and voice your concern with this inhumanity, this torture.  Call Governor Taft at 614-466-3555

Inmate talks to family on day before execution

By JIM PROVANCE
BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU

LUCASVILLE - Condemned inmate Joseph Lewis Clark dined on surf and turf and talked with family by phone yesterday as the hour of his death approached.

Gov. Bob Taft has denied clemency and Clark had no court appeals pending last night that could stop his execution at 10 a.m. today for the murder of David A. Manning 22 years ago during a drug-driven, nine-day armed robbery spree.