Post by thinkinkmesa on Mar 3, 2011 19:27:30 GMT -5
Ohio high court upholds execution date for Akron killer, sets 3 others
The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld an execution date for Brett Hartman, who was convicted in the 1997 fatal mutilation and torture of a woman in Akron.
The court upheld Aug. 16 as the execution date for Hartman, who was convicted in 1998 of murdering Winda Snipes, 46.
Snipes, an acquaintance of Hartman, was killed Sept. 9, 1997, in her Highland Square apartment.
Snipes was stabbed 133 times, her throat was cut twice, she was strangled with a cord and her hands, which have not been found, were cut off.
Hartman has maintained his innocence, saying he was home at the time of the murder. He claims he found Snipe's body and panicked, removing evidence that he was in her apartment the previous night because he felt police would accuse him of the killing.
The court also set three new execution dates for condemned killers, including a man on death row since 1984 for shooting his three sons as they lay in bed.
The court set a Nov. 15 date for 65-year-old Reginald Brooks, sentenced to die for killing his children in Cleveland in 1982 two days after his wife served divorce papers.
The court set a Jan. 18, 2012, date for 44-year-old Charles Lorraine, sentenced to die for stabbing an elderly couple to death in their Trumbull County home in 1986.
The court set a Feb. 22, 2012, date for 62-year-old Michael Webb, sentenced to die for killing his 3-year-old son in an arson fire in Clermont County in 1990.
www.ohio.com/news/break_news/117154413.html
The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld an execution date for Brett Hartman, who was convicted in the 1997 fatal mutilation and torture of a woman in Akron.
The court upheld Aug. 16 as the execution date for Hartman, who was convicted in 1998 of murdering Winda Snipes, 46.
Snipes, an acquaintance of Hartman, was killed Sept. 9, 1997, in her Highland Square apartment.
Snipes was stabbed 133 times, her throat was cut twice, she was strangled with a cord and her hands, which have not been found, were cut off.
Hartman has maintained his innocence, saying he was home at the time of the murder. He claims he found Snipe's body and panicked, removing evidence that he was in her apartment the previous night because he felt police would accuse him of the killing.
The court also set three new execution dates for condemned killers, including a man on death row since 1984 for shooting his three sons as they lay in bed.
The court set a Nov. 15 date for 65-year-old Reginald Brooks, sentenced to die for killing his children in Cleveland in 1982 two days after his wife served divorce papers.
The court set a Jan. 18, 2012, date for 44-year-old Charles Lorraine, sentenced to die for stabbing an elderly couple to death in their Trumbull County home in 1986.
The court set a Feb. 22, 2012, date for 62-year-old Michael Webb, sentenced to die for killing his 3-year-old son in an arson fire in Clermont County in 1990.
www.ohio.com/news/break_news/117154413.html