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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.