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BREAKING NEWS: Burge orders change in lethal injection protocol

Tuesday, 10 June 2008

 

ELYRIA - Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge ordered this
morning that Ohio change the lethal injection protocol used to
execute condemned prisoners.
The ruling comes after two days of testimony from anesthesiologists
and written arguments submitted in the case. Capital murder
defendants Ronald McCloud and Ruben Rivera challenged the state's
lethal injection protocol arguing that it violates Ohio law that
guarantees a quick and painless death.

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Another reason to halt executions

Monday, 09 June 2008

 

A federal appeals court ruled last week that a Cleveland man who has been on Ohio's death row for 19 years must be given a new trial or freed from prison.

The three-judge panel said that prosecutors withheld from Joe D'Ambrosio's attorneys several pieces of evidence that could have cleared him of a 1988 murder.

 

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Take Action for Arthur Tyler on Ohio's Death Row

Saturday, 07 June 2008

 

Leroy Head, the man who confessed more than FIVE times to the crime which Arthur Tyler has been sentenced to die for in Ohio has been FREED on parole on the 3 June 2008.
We need people to write to the US Embassy in UK


Please write to protest this execution and conviction to:

US Embassy
24 Grosvenor SquareLondon,
W1A 1AE
United Kingdom

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Leroy Head Confessed. He is freed. Arthur Tyler still on Death Row

Friday, 06 June 2008

 

On 3rd June 2008, Head was FREED on parole. While Arthur has sat waiting to die for over 25 years. Time is running out for Arthur.

Yet more injustice in Ohio.  See http://justiceforarthurtyler.blogspot.com/   for more info.

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Joe D'Ambrosio: Man on death row should get new trial, court rules

Friday, 06 June 2008

 A Cleveland man who has spent nearly two decades on Death Row must be given a new trial or let out of a prison, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The three-judge panel agreed with a ruling made in 2006 by U.S. District Judge Kate O'Malley that Joe D'Ambrosio is entitled to a new trial because prosecutors withheld several pieces of crucial evidence that could have exonerated him.

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