A recent Dayton Daily News video edi­to­r­i­al urged Ohio Governor Bob Taft to grant clemen­cy to John Spirko, an Ohio death row inmate sched­uled to be exe­cut­ed on November 15. The video states that Spirko’s case was plagued with gaps and incon­sis­ten­cies, and that he may actu­al­ly be inno­cent. The video was part­ly shot inside Ohio’s ​“death house” in Lucasville prison. To view the video on the Web, click here.

(Dayton Daily News, Nov. 4, 2005). See Innocence and Clemency.
Update: At the request of the pros­e­cu­tion, John Spirko has been grant­ed a two-month reprieve of his exe­cu­tion date to allow DNA test­ing of evi­dence from the case. (Associated Press, Nov. 7, 2005).

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