It’s really nice to see all the change Obama has brought to the nation. No longer are we a hateful nation but one of great compassion. It started with Gitmo and the realization that jihad terrorist should be treated with diginity and love. That’s why Gitmo needed to be closed.
Now in Ohio we see how Gov. Strickland saved a man whose need for drugs was so great that he killed his mother and returned twice for money. The family has suffered so much and want this to be over. Why end a creeps life when we could continue to enjoy his company and anticipate his return to do the same to the rest of his family?
Thank you Gov. Strickland for your great compassion. But why wait? Give the man half the money (about $125,000) and put him into the Ohio economy as a part of the stimulus plan?
“Sometimes we assume that clemency is only there to correct cases of wrongful convictions,” Kobil said. “In fact we have long used clemency in cases where the sentence is technically legal, but in a broader or in a human sense, unjust.”
The compassion knows no bounds. In the toughest of times we can afford as a State to pay for his health care, food and housing. How could a compassionate citizen argue against such actions?Doesn’t it make you proud to be an Ohioan?
Ohio governor grants clemency for death row inmate
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS – 12 hours ago
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. Ted Strickland on Thursday spared the life of a death row inmate who killed his mother in a cocaine-induced rage and whose upcoming execution was opposed by his entire family, including his mother’s siblings.
Jeffrey Hill, 44, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection March 3. But Strickland said he agrees with the Ohio Parole Board, which recommended last week that Hill not be put to death and should eventually be released from prison. He could be freed in less than 10 years.
Hill stabbed his mother, Emma Hill, to death in 1991. As she lay dying in her Cincinnati apartment, he took $20 from her to spend on drugs. He returned later in the day and took another $80.
Hill’s family said they had suffered enough and that putting him to death would only make things worse. The case was the first time an Ohio inmate facing death for killing a family member had unanimous backing from his family as he fought execution.
“Our family’s prayers have finally been answered,” said Hill’s uncle Eddie Sanders of Cincinnati.
Strickland, a Democrat, cited the views of the Hill family, as well as the poor legal assistance Hill received when he was sentenced.
via The Associated Press: Ohio governor grants clemency for death row inmate.
