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Post by thinkinkmesa on Jun 7, 2007 22:39:08 GMT -5
ohiodeathrow.blogspot.com/2009/05/clarence-carter.html__________________________________________________ Admin note; This is an older petition that may be replaced. www.petitiononline.com/IJPCCC/petition.htmlUrge Governor Strickland to commute Carter’s death sentence, scheduled for July 10, 2007. Clarence Carter was convicted of the murder of Johnny Allen, a fellow prisoner, and sentenced to death. This should not have been a death penalty case – Mr. Carter is not the “worst of the worst”. The jury received both false information and a lack of necessary information, including: - Johnny Allen had expressed pre-fight threats against Mr. Carter - Mr. Allen had been the aggressor - There was no mitigating evidence presented such as Carter’s “organic brain dysfunction”, his borderline IQ, or the exposure to violent role models and racism Carter endured throughout his childhood. Clarence Carter’s sentence should be commuted.
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Jul 10, 2007 9:01:16 GMT -5
Clarence Carter update: The stay of Cla... - ohiodeathpenaltyinfo.typepad.com/ohio_death_penalty_inform/2007/07/clarence-cart-1.htmlClarence Carter update: The stay of Clarence Carter's execution - which had been scheduled to take place tomorrow morning at 10 AM - is still in effect, and there is no word of a last-minute appeal in the works by the Ohio Attorney General. According to Ohio's lethal injection protocol, an inmate to be executed is supposed to be moved to Lucasville "approximately 24 hours" in advance of execution. Carter has not been moved. Additionally, none of the other standard procedures leading to an execution has taken place - e.g. advance designation of witnesses. Therefore, even if not a legal certainty, it is pretty clear at this point that Clarence Carter's execution will not take place tomorrow. |
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Jul 12, 2007 20:46:28 GMT -5
His stay, along with the fourteen other inmates on the lethal injection lawsuit, will remain pending the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court regarding whether or not to hear the Cooey case.
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Post by guest on Aug 5, 2009 22:20:01 GMT -5
Clarence Carter admits he beat and stomped Johnny Allen to death 21 years ago while the two were inmates at the Hamilton County Justice Center. But Carter says Allen died during a fight that got out of control, not because he intended to kill him. Carter's lawyers told a federal appeals court Wednesday that evidence discovered after Carter's conviction supports his claim and could save him from the death sentence he received two decades ago. They say a key witness changed his story years after Carter's murder trial when he told investigators he didn't really see who started the fight in 1988, despite testifying earlier that he had seen Carter "sucker punch" Allen and then beat him for more than 20 minutes. The distinction is important, they say, because prosecutors used the testimony to show Carter intended to kill Allen with "prior calculation and design," which made him eligible for the death penalty. "No reasonable juror would have convicted Carter without evidence of a sucker punch," said Joe Wilhelm, one of Carter's lawyers. But the panel of three judges from the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals was skeptical about whether the witness really changed his story and, if he did, whether it would have made any difference to jurors. They said the witness, a fellow inmate named Calvin Steele, claimed years later that he "couldn't remember" who started the fight and that he had testified "truthfully" during the trial. The judges also noted that other evidence from the case could have given jurors reason to believe Carter had acted with prior calculation. That evidence includes testimony from several witnesses about how Carter beat, kicked and punched Allen repeatedly and, on two occasions, took a break to mop blood off his shoes. "When he stops twice to wipe blood off his shoes, they might find that to be prior calculation," said Judge Danny Boggs. Thomas Madden, a lawyer with the Ohio Attorney General's office, said Steele may have attempted to change his story in 1994 after some of Carter's relatives threatened him in prison. When charged with perjury by prosecutors, Steele backed off those comments and said he stood by his trial testimony. Madden said Steele's subsequent statements about being unable to remember who started the fight have more to do with the passage of six years since the trial than with a genuine recantation of his testimony. "He can't remember everything about the fight, but he does remember testifying truthfully," Madden said. Carter is among the longest-serving inmates from Hamilton County on Ohio's Death Row. He was in jail at the time of Allen's death because of a previous, unrelated murder conviction. The 6th Circuit could rule on Carter's appeal within the next few months. news.cincinnati.com/article/20090805/NEWS0107/908060322/Killer+argues+to+escape+death+penalty |
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Feb 25, 2011 1:09:10 GMT -5
The Ohio Supreme Court has refused to delay the April execution of a man sentenced to die for a fatal jail beating. Without comment, the court on Friday denied the request for more time filed by the attorney for 48-year-old Clarence Carter, of Cincinnati. The state's highest court last week set seven execution dates including Carter's, which is scheduled for April 12. Defense attorney Linda Prucha argued that she didn't have enough time to prepare for Carter's new clemency hearing, set for March 11. She asked that the execution date be delayed at least six months. More; www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/state/ohio-high-court-rejects-execution-delay-request |
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Post by Kelly on Mar 20, 2011 7:37:20 GMT -5
Please note;Text of this post removed due to inflammatory and/or racial slurs. Forum administrator. This forum is not pro death and inappropriate comments will be removed. Constructive comments or links to memorial sites dedicated to victims can be placed in the Victims remembered area. bretthartmann.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=rememberedThis free website tool has been recommended. www.webs.com/
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Mar 21, 2011 22:45:04 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Mar 21, 2011 22:47:35 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Mar 30, 2011 23:11:10 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Mar 30, 2011 23:37:46 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Apr 8, 2011 11:06:42 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Apr 11, 2011 13:54:43 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Apr 12, 2011 13:56:55 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Apr 12, 2011 14:01:29 GMT -5
Jailhouse killer Clarence Carter executed Clarence Carter paid the ultimate price today for going into a rage and killing a fellow inmate during a jailhouse fight more than 22 years ago. Carter, 49, of Hamilton County, was lethally injected at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville. His time of death was 10:25 a.m. He apologized to the family of his victim: "Let them know I'm sorry for what I did." But the victim's mother, Helen L. Bonner, said in a statement, "I have no animosity against him and I have forgiven him for taking my child from me...I am glad that justice is finally served, but my forgiveness toward him will never ease the pain of the loss of my son Johnny." More;www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/04/12/12-carter-executed.html?sid=101 |
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Apr 13, 2011 11:08:55 GMT -5
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