Entries tagged with “Tyrone Noling

Policy Issues

Innocence

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Oct 24, 2013

EDITORIALS: Possible Innocence Case Deserves DNA Testing

A recent edi­to­r­i­al in the Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio) called for DNA test­ing in the death penal­ty case of Tyrone Noling. Noling has been on death row for 17 years. His con­vic­tion was based large­ly on the …

Policy Issues

Arbitrariness

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Innocence

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Aug 10, 2010

Ohio Governor and Attorney General Urge DNA Testing in Death Row Case

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and Attorney General Richard Cordray recent­ly urged pros­e­cu­tors in sev­en crim­i­nal cas­es to allow DNA test­ing that could either prove inno­cence or con­firm the defen­dan­t’s guilt. The sev…

Policy Issues

Arbitrariness

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Innocence

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Jan 31, 2012

Possible Innocence Case Highlights Concerns About Ohio’s Death Penalty

Tyrone Noling (pic­tured) is an inmate on Ohio’s death row whose guilt has been called into doubt by a lack of phys­i­cal evi­dence, recant­i­ng wit­ness­es and refusal by the state to con­duct a DNA test. Andrew Cohen, wr…