Posted on 09/13/2017 6:27:16 AM PDT by raccoonradio
LUCASVILLE, Ohio — The Latest on the scheduled execution of a contemned Ohio killer (all times local):
8:55 a.m.
The Ohio Supreme Court says it won't hear an appeal from a condemned killer who argues he shouldn't be put to death because of his age at the time of the crime.
The court declined to halt a scheduled 10 a.m. Wednesday execution in a decision released about two hours before.
Lawyers for death row inmate Gary Otte (OH'-tee) wanted the court to apply the ruling of a Kentucky court last month that found the death penalty unconstitutional for people who were under 21 at the time their crimes were committed.
Otte was 20 when he killed Robert Wasikowski (wah-sih-KOW'-skee) and Sharon Kostura in Parma, in suburban Cleveland, in 1992.
The state decision ended his legal options, because the U.S. Supreme Court already denied his attempt to delay execution.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.startribune.com ...
A waste of good body parts. After being certified disease-free, convicts being executed should be put under, have all usable parts removed, all blood drained for the blood bank, and the remnant disposed of in the usual manner. Never again would there be a “botched” execution, and some good would come from their miserable lives.
Dang. He owed me $7. There is no justice.
Throw what is left in a field. Buzzards gotta eat too.
A tweet from WTAM Cleveland says Ote was pronounced dead at 10:54 am
Canton Repository:
“Otte was sentenced to die for the Feb. 12, 1992, killing of Robert Wasikowski and the Feb. 13, 1992, killing of Sharon Kostura.
JoEllen Smith, a state prisons department spokeswoman, says death row inmate Gary Otte (OH’-tee) did not sleep overnight ahead of his scheduled Wednesday morning execution for killing two people in back-to-back robberies in 1992.
She says Otte showered early Wednesday, and shortly before 7 a.m. was praying with his parents.”
AMF
He is.
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-injection/ohio-executes-double-murderer-gary-otte-n800971
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