Ohio Execution>Richard Fox

[countrygal]

Please mark your calendars.

Ohioans to stop Executions and Amnesty International will sponsor a rally on
Saturday, February 1 from 2 to 3 PM in front of the Governor's Mansion in
Columbus to protest the scheduled execution of Richard Fox, set for February
12, and to ask Governor Bob Taft to grant clemency to Richard Fox.

Please plan to attend and bring as many people as you can. Please forward
this message to others who might be interested.

DIRECTIONS TO THE GOVERNOR’S MANSION

The Governor’s Mansion is located at 358 N. Parkview St. (corner of Parkview
and Maryland) in Bexley, a suburb of Columbus. Travel east on Broad St.
from downtown Columbus or take the Broad St. exit from I71 North. .
Traveling east on Broad, turn left (north) on Parkview. The mansion is on
the right-hand side at Parkview and Maryland. On street parking is
available.

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[tekela]

Christy, I just sent an e-mail. Thanks for sharing the info. I am very sorry I could not attended the CURE meeting last Saturday, I hope to see you at the rally.

[toe]

Not looking good...

Taft denies clemency request of man who killed college student
source: Cleveland Plain Dealer

Gov. Bob Taft refused to grant clemency Wednesday for a northwest Ohio man sentenced to die next week for kidnapping, strangling and stabbing a college student after luring her to a phony job interview 14 years ago.

Richard E. Fox, 47, is to die by injection Feb. 12. He has no appeals pending, and his attorneys said they will file no more because there are no legal issues that courts have not already reviewed.

"There comes a time in the case when all the stones have been turned and there's nothing left to do in the courthouse. That's the case of Mr. Fox," said Greg Meyers, chief of the Ohio Public Defender's death penalty section and one of Fox's attorneys.

"Now we have to help him to die with as much dignity and peace as possible."

The Ohio Parole Board last month unanimously recommended against changing Fox's sentence to life in prison without the chance of parole.

"There is no doubt that Mr. Fox is guilty of brutally murdering Leslie Keckler," Taft said in a statement. "There are no circumstances in this case that would indicate any manifest injustice. I can find no compelling reason to grant clemency."

Taft also said Fox received a fair trial and had adequate legal representation.

The governor has not granted clemency in the five previous death penalty cases since 1999, and never has gone against the board's recommendations in such cases.

Meyers said he told Fox of Taft's decision.

"He has reacted with remarkable strength and recognition that he now will die in a week," Meyers said.

Fox, a native of Tontogany, was convicted in 1990 by a three-judge panel in Wood County of kidnapping and murdering Keckler, 18, of Bowling Green, after she showed up at a hotel on Sept. 26, 1989, for what she thought was an interview for a job selling restaurant supplies.

Fox confessed to killing Keckler, whose body was found in a drainage ditch 4 days later, only after police confronted him about their report by another woman who said she had escaped a similar ruse months earlier.

Prosecutors said during the parole board hearing that Fox used deception to lure women as practice in the years before he killed Keckler.

But Fox's attorneys said their client used trickery with the intent to meet women, not to kill them. His attorneys argued that Fox is not the "worst of the worst" criminals for whom the death penalty is intended.

They also said Fox should be re-sentenced because the trial court used sentencing guidelines in 1994 that two years later the Supreme Court declared were flawed. The state denied his sentence would be different under the 1996 guidelines.

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I WILL KEEP HIM IN PRAYER.GOD BLESS HIM