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~ Ronald Phillips, 26Jul17, (OH) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: December 30, 2016, 11:40 am
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Kasich rejects mercy for killer of 3-year-old--
December 21, 2016
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COLUMBUS-- Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday rejected mercy for the
first inmate scheduled for execution next year under a new
process for putting condemned prisoners to death.
The governor also delayed the execution of Ronald Phillips by
one month following a federal judge’s order last week that
temporarily put executions on hold.
Phillips is now scheduled for execution on Feb. 15. He would be
the first inmate put to death in Ohio in three years. Phillips
was sentenced to die for the 1993 **** and killing of his
girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter.
Kasich’s decision was expected; he rejected mercy for Phillips
three years ago, and the Ohio Parole Board recommended against
clemency earlier this month.
“Given the extremely brutal nature of the offense committed
against an innocent 3-year-old child, I agree with the Ohio
Parole Board’s recommendation that clemency is not warranted in
this case,” the governor said in a statement.
A message was left with attorneys for Phillips, who had asked
that their client be spared. They call the case tragic but argue
that Phillips is not among the worst of the worst offenders.
Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh has said that
Phillips refuses to accept responsibility and it’s time for
justice to be served.
Federal magistrate Michael Merz in Dayton issued the delay last
week amid a challenge of a state law that shields details about
the lethal injection drugs the Ohio prisons agency plans to use.
At the time, Merz said the stay could be lifted if a federal
appeals court hands down a ruling in the shield law challenge
before Phillips’ previously scheduled execution on Jan. 12.
The state disagrees with the judge’s ruling, but the reprieves
should provide enough time to resolve any legal issues, said
Kasich spokeswoman Emmalee Kalmbach.
The parole board voted 10-2 against recommending mercy for
Phillips on Dec. 9, turning down arguments that Phillips was the
product of a horrific upbringing and that his trial was marked
by legal mistakes and missteps.
The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction plans to execute
Phillips and two other inmates with a three-drug combination
that’s similar to a method it used several years ago.
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Re: ~ Ronald Phillips, 26Jul17, (OH) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: July 26, 2017, 2:02 pm
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Ohio executes Ronald Phillips; first execution in 3 years--
Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
For the first time in more than three years, the state of Ohio
has executed a death row inmate.
State officials executed Ronald Phillips by lethal injection
this morning officially at 10:43 a.m. at a state prison in
Lucasville, about 80 miles south of Columbus.
The execution ended a lull following an unusually drawn-out
execution that relied on a controversial lethal-injection drug.
Phillips’ brother arrived late and the warden allowed the
execution to be delayed so they could have some time together.
The Ohio Parole Board twice voted against recommending clemency
for Phillips, 43, who has been on Death Row since September 1993
— nearly 24 years. He was convicted of the r*p* and murder of
3-year-old Sheila Marie Evans in 1993. Doctors who tried to save
the little girl documented more than 125 bruises on her,
indicating she had been severely beaten in the head, torso,
arms, legs and genitalia within a few hours of death, and they
found evidence that she was sodomized.
Phillips had been granted earlier reprieves to allow legal
arguments over Ohio’s lethal injection process.
Here’s Phillips’ final statement before his execution: To the
Evans family, I’m sorry you had to live so long with my evil
actions. All those years I prayed you’d forgive me and find it
in your heart to forgive me and have mercy on me.
Sheila Marie did not deserve what I did to her. I know she is
with the Lord and she suffers no more. I’m sorry to each and
every one of you that you lived with this pain all those years.
To my family, thank you for your support and faithfulness. Glory
be to the lamb.
Amen. I love you all and God bless you. Thank you.
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