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Friday, 10 April 2009
The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday set execution dates for two more condemned killers as the state accelerates its death penalty cases.
The court set a July 14 execution date for John Fautenberry, sentenced to death for the fatal shooting of Joseph Daron at a highway restaurant in Hamilton County during a 1991 multistate killing spree.
Fautenberry, 45, was convicted of the stabbing death of an Alaska miner and the slaying of a New Jersey truck driver, and was linked to the deaths of two people in Oregon. He received a 99-year-sentence in the Alaska case and a life sentence in the New Jersey murder. Oregon did not charge him in the Portland-area killings because authorities there decided to let Ohio prosecutors take the lead.
The court set an Aug. 18 execution date for Jason Getsy, given the death penalty in the 1995 slaying of a woman in a murder-for-hire scheme in Trumbull County.
Prosecutors said Getsy, 34, was hired by John Santine in July 1995 to kill Charles "Chuckie" Serafino, a business rival. But when Getsy went to Serafino's home in Hubbard, he only wounded Serafino and killed his mother, Ann Serafino, 68.
Santine was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
The court ruled 6-1 in setting the dates in each case. Justice Paul Pfeifer dissented without comment.
Another death row inmate, Daniel Wilson of Elyria near Cleveland, is scheduled to die June 3 for kidnapping a female friend, locking her in the trunk of his car and burning her alive in 1991.
Two other requests for executions are pending before the state Supreme Court.
Prosecutors have asked for execution dates for Rommell Broom, convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in Cleveland in 1984, and Marvallous Keene, sentenced to die for his role in a murder spree in Dayton in 1992 that left five people dead.
Brett Hartmann of Akron had been scheduled to die Tuesday in the 1997 stabbing death of Winda Snipes, 46. Last month, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals delayed the execution, pending a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case involving inmates' right to DNA testing.
The state Supreme Court began setting execution dates again after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injection a year ago. After that decision, the Ohio Attorney General's Office asked prosecutors to coordinate how they filed their requests for fear of swamping the state Supreme Court.
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