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Post by thinkinkmesa on Jun 7, 2011 23:17:16 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Jun 7, 2011 23:19:17 GMT -5
Ohio Supreme Court hears Stark death-penalty case The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday morning in the death-penalty case of Edward L. Lang III. A Stark County jury convicted Lang in 2007 of killing Jaron N. Burditte and Marnell M. Cheek during a robbery. Tuesday was the first time the state’s highest court heard arguments on the appeal. More; www.indeonline.com/news/x1841753297/Ohio-Supreme-Court-hears-Stark-death-penalty-case |
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Aug 31, 2011 12:56:34 GMT -5
Court Upholds Death Sentence For Canton Man The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence given a Canton man convicted of gunning down two men in a 2006 drug-related killing. A jury sentenced Edward Lang to death for the killing of Jaron Burditte and sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole for the killing of Burditte's friend, Marnell Cheek. Court records say Lang and an accomplice had contacted Burditte, a local drug dealer, with plans to rob him. The court's Wednesday decision overruled objections by Lang that the original indictment did not properly spell out the elements of the death penalty case against him. The court set a 2013 execution date for Lang but that will likely be delayed by years of federal appeals. www.onntv.com/content/stories/2011/08/31/story-upholds-death-penalty.html |
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Aug 31, 2011 22:38:10 GMT -5
www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/PIO/summaries/2011/0831/071741.asp View oral argument video of this case. www.supremecourtofohiomedialibrary.org/Media.aspx?fileId=131332Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence A Canton man was hoping for more from the Ohio Supreme Court. Edward Lang, however, remains on Ohio's death row with two murder convictions. Lang is there for his apparent role in the 2006 execution-style shooting deaths of Jaron Burditte and Marnell Cheek. The high court rejected all 22 things that attorneys for Burditte introduced to help him, including arguments about the scientific integrity of DNA evidence used at trail and allowing a juror who was related by marriage to one of the victims to initially serve. Justices believe those issues were resolved appropriately and not in a way that further damaged Lang's reputation among the remaining panelists. Although the court unanimously upheld the conviction and sentence, Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton used the case to call on the Ohio General Assembly to prohibit executions of people who were suffering from severe mental illness at the time of the crime. Currently, mental incompetance at the time of execution is reason to stop the process. Stratton says the U.S. Supreme Court has not taken up the matter, but she thinks it needs to be done at the legislative level, rather than judicial. Lang's execution is scheduled for 2013, but it will like be delayed many years until mandatory and other appeals are resolved. akronnewsnow.com/news/itemlist/tag/death%20penalty%20ohio
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