Ohio death penalty updates

The Ohio Supreme Court and U.S. Southern Ohio District Court both denied stays of execution for Mark Brown yesterday.

Brown last week was granted a motion to be included in a lawsuit challenging Ohio's lethal injection system, and, last Saturday, to "incorporate the entire record from Cooey v. Strickland, Case No. 2:04-CV-1156 into (his) case."

His execution is scheduled for 10 o'clock Thursday morning.


The Court has also set execution dates in the following cases:

• 1994-1964. State v. William Garner
  Convicted in 1992 for the aggravated murder of five children. After burglarizing a home, in which he observed six (6) children, Garner set three (3) fires in the house. Five (5) of those children died from smoke inhalation.
  
  Motion to Set Execution Date



• 1996-0452. State v. Roderick Davie
  
  Also known as Abdul Hakiym Zakiy, was convicted and sentenced to death for the June 27, 1991, aggravated murders of John Ira Coleman and Tracey Jefferys
  
  Motion to Set Execution Date



• 1996-1149. State v. Kevin Keith
  
  Convicted and sentenced to death for the aggravated murder of Marichell Chatman, LindaChatman, and Marchae Chatman in 1994.
  
  Motion to Set Execution Date