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"One thing I learned, everything counts in life." ~Timothy Howard
Timothy Howard, an innocent man, a victim of misguided justice, is dead tonight. There wasn't anything fair about "the gap" in his life; nothing restorative about his years in prison, and certainly nothing reassuring to any of us about what those years did to his spirit. If the system incarcerates an innocent man and then so destroys him that he cannot get his life back, it most definately cannot be a rehabilitative place for anyone; and thus we are all placed at greater risk.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A man who won the largest wrongful imprisonment settlement in state history suffered a heart attack last week and has not regained consciousness, The Columbus Dispatch reported Monday.
Gov. Ted Strickland has rejected a plea for clemency from a Trumbull County death row inmate, clearing a hurdle for Ohio's first execution this year and first under the new administration.
Just goes to show that miscarriages of justice do happen in Ohio.
By Jim Provance, The Toledo Blade
March 2, 2007
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COLUMBUS - A federal appeals court this morning dealt what could be a fatal blow to a lawsuit brought by a handful of death row inmates challenging the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal-injection process.