Ohio governor commutes death sentence after ex-juror sought reprieve

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

JULY 20, 2018 / 8:33 PM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
Jon Herskovitz
3 MIN READ

(Reuters) - Ohio Governor John Kasich on Friday commuted the death sentence of a convicted double murderer after a former juror in the man’s trial asked he not be put to death because the panel was not given key information during sentencing about his troubled childhood.

Kasich, a Republican, said there were fundamental flaws in the sentencing phase for inmate Raymond Tibbetts and ordered him to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole, the governor’s office said in a statement.

“The defense’s failure to present sufficient mitigating evidence, coupled with an inaccurate description of Tibbetts’s childhood by the prosecution, essentially prevented the jury from making an informed decision about whether Tibbetts deserved the death penalty,” it said.

. . .

In the letter, Geiger said there was no question Tibbetts committed the murders but factors about the defendant’s upbringing were omitted or distorted by prosecutors in the trial’s sentencing phase.

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[Izzy Blue]

1. I don't believe in the DP

And seeing someone who obviously does and voted for it do the right thing by contacting the judge asking that it be overturned shows there is hope for humanity.

[marble falls]

2. And I also don't believe in life sentences with no parole. I'm pretty much against ...

sentences over twenty years absolutely thirty years max.

[Izzy Blue]

3. If one gets a 20- or the max 30 yr sentence for

the most horrendous crimes then going down the ladder it would be just a few years for crimes that are getting the 20-30 today.
And you're okay with that?

[marble falls]

4. Its called the Dept of Corrections not the Dept of Punishment, they're called penitentiaries ..

not houses of getting even.

We have higher prison terms than just about any nation on earth. And higher crime rates. Tough sentences don't work for us, we need to look at maybe the Scandinavian model. No death penalty and a maximum sentence of twenty-one years.

Here's Finland's model.


Why Does Norway Have a 21-Year Maximum Prison Sentence?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/05/07/why_does_norway_have_a_21_year_maximum_prison_sentence.html

Heres a list of maximum penalties from throughout the world, Denmark has the lowest and a very low rate of crime:

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Sentence-Length


Prison reform is an important issue for me.

[Lucky Luciano]

5. It's not just revenge. It is keeping monsters locked in a box away from polite society...

...where tr@$p should be.

Andres Breivik isn’t getting out after 21 years either.

[marble falls]

6. Andres Breivek isn't a typical criminal, why build the entire system around the exception? ...

And in fact the treatment he receives in the prison he's at is more like what we refer here to as a "Club Fed" and actually much better - free access through out the prison, no cells, bars, uniforms, or armed guards.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35813470
Anders Breivik: Just how cushy are Norwegian prisons?



Compare this to any facility in the US. I bet there's not one. This is the standard in Norway.