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Intervene Execution - letter by Connie Mottinger

Friday, 04 November 2005

Intervene Execution - letter by Connie Mottinger

Thu Nov 3, 2005 1:58pm

November 1, 2005

Governor Bob Taft
30 . Floor th
77 South High Street
Columbus, Ohio
43215-6117

Re: Intervene Execution

Dear Governor Taft,
I am writing you this letter in a plea to intervene with the execution of John G. Spirko Jr.only until the DNA testing is complete and a full investigation can be done to bring allthat were involved in this murder to Justice.

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Spirko files civil rights suit to get evidence

Thursday, 03 November 2005

By JIM PROVANCE
BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU

COLUMBUS ? Attorneys for John Spirko yesterday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in an attempt to force the state to produce 23-year-old evidence for DNA testing they say could point to a different perpetrator.

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URGENT ACTION JOHN SPIRKO

Thursday, 03 November 2005
 
Let Governor Taft know that Ohio is DEAD WRONG in this case and that John Spirko should be granted clemency and have his case re opened and re looked at. CALL FAX EMAIL DAILY.  Let thousands and thousands of people protest this evil act.  PLEASE PASS THIS AROUND TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE.
 
APPEALS TO:
Governor Bob Taft
30th Floor
77 South High Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215-6117
Call him at 614.466.3555.
Fax him at 614-466-9354.
Email Governor Taft http://governor.ohio.gov/contactinfopage.asp

Spirko seeks mercy as death date nears

Thursday, 03 November 2005

By John McCarthy

Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? A Van Wert County death-row inmate who claims he?s not guilty of murder said Wednesday he hopes someone in authority steps in to help spare his life, which is scheduled to end by lethal injection Nov. 15.

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Spirko: troubled, but I am at peace'

Thursday, 03 November 2005

As death date nears, he clings to hope

Thursday, November 03, 2005
T.C. Brown and Sandra Livingston
Plain Dealer Reporters

Mansfield --

John Spirko knows he may have only 12 more days of life, but he clings to hope that someone will postpone the executioner's call.

The state of Ohio plans to execute Spirko at 10 a.m. Nov. 15 for the 1982 murder of rural postmaster Betty Jane Mottinger, a crime Spirko insists he did not commit.

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Inmate pleads for help from death row

Thursday, 03 November 2005

A death row inmate who claims he's innocent of murder said Wednesday he hopes someone in authority steps in to help spare his life, which is to end by lethal injection Nov. 15.

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