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Strickland rejects Toledo native's bid to delay execution
Found: 1 Day 15 Hours 27 Minutes ago
Toledo Blade - LUCASVILLE, Ohio - Condemned inmate Gregory Bryant-Bey last night met with members of his family and ate a final meal of fried chicken and cherry pie as he prepared for the likelihood he would be put to death this morning for the 1992 murder of a North Toledo merchant.
Gov. Ted Strickland yesterday denied the Toledo native's petition for clemency, agreeing with the Ohio Parole Board's unanimous recommendation that the case doesn't warrant mercy.
"We're very disappointed that he did not either grant clemency or at least a reprieve so we could send additional information for his consideration," said David Stebbins, Bryant-Bey's assistant federal public defender.
"There are some issues with Mr. Bryant-Bey's mental health and developmental problems from childhood that were not properly presented to the parole board," Mr. Stebbins said. "The parole board drew some conclusions that were just plain wrong."
The U.S. Supreme Court last night refused to hear an appeal of two lower court decisions refusing to grant him extra time. Both lower courts punted to Mr. Strickland as the final arbiter of Bryant-Bey's fate.
Bryant-Bey was sentenced to death for the Aug. 9, 1992, stabbing of Dale Pinkelman, owner of Pinky's Collectibles in the New Towne Square mall in North
Toledo. He was also sentenced to life in prison for the similar robbery-murder nearly three months later of Pete Mihas, owner of The Board Room restaurant in downtown Toledo.
Bryant-Bey is scheduled to be executed at 10 a.m. today by the injection of three drugs designed to sedate him and then induce paralysis and cardiac arrest.
Bryant-Bey arrived at 9:42 a.m. yesterday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, roughly 250 miles from death row at Ohio State Penitentiary near Youngstown.
Andrea Carson, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said last night he recognized some of the guards from when he was housed at Lucasville in the early 1990s before death row was moved.
"His mood has been very easygoing and jovial," she said. "He's been talking with the [prison] team. He's in a very upbeat mood. Some are very quiet and don't want to talk at all, but he's been talking since he got here."
He met with a sister, Darlene Hines, and her husband, Milton; a brother, Elton Williamson and his wife, Gwendolyn; the mother of his two children, Charlene Johnson, and several representatives of the state and federal public defenders' offices.
For his "special meal," he requested and ate three pieces of fried chicken, potato salad, spaghetti with meat sauce, cherry pie with strawberry ice cream, and Pepsi. He will have the opportunity to eat the same breakfast as the other inmates this morning - scrambled eggs, bran flakes, bread, jelly, coffee, and fruit juice.
Ms. Carson said Bryant-Bey hadn't decided whether he would make a final statement before the witnesses.
"He's thinking about it," she said. "It's one of the most difficult things for the inmate to decide."
Two of Mr. Pinkelman's sons-in-law, Jay Clark and Stephen Ujvagi - nephew of State Rep. Peter Ujvagi (D., Toledo) - plan to serve as witnesses in case Bryant-Bey should address the victim's family. They offered the third vacant seat to the Mihas family, but the family declined.
"I'd like to see some finality to the whole thing," Mr. Clark said in a recent interview. "I was there for the last five or six years of Dale's life. I was there the night before and the day when he was found. I was there when the detective showed up at the door. I was there for the trials, so I guess I should be there for the execution."
Bryant-Bey's requested witnesses are his brother Mr. Williamson, Rachel Troutman, an assistant state public defender, and Carol Wright, of the federal public defender's office.
Mr. Stebbins has argued that Bryant-Bey's clemency hearing last month before the parole board was handled by a state assistant public defender who'd just been assigned the case 10 days earlier. However, the state office had been working on the case since June. A series of internal personnel changes had resulted in the case being passed off between attorneys.
The clemency petition did not argue that Bryant-Bey was innocent of Mr. Pinkelman's murder, but the late court filings noted that he insists he is. He had admitted to killing Mr. Mihas and had apologized to his family before the jury returned a death sentence 15 years ago.
The clemency petition submitted to Mr. Strickland had argued that Bryant-Bey had been permanently scarred when he was abandoned at the age of 2 by his Toledo mother and left in the hands of an abusive New York godmother.
Although he was returned to Toledo at age 13 to live with half-siblings he'd never met, Bryant-Bey eventually turned to drugs and crime, living sporadically on the streets.
Strickland spokesman Keith Dailey confirmed that the materials reviewed by the governor's office included a petition signed by 574 Toledo-area residents in support of clemency that arrived yesterday.
Contact Jim Provance at:
jprovance@theblade.com
or 614-221-0496.
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Trash fee proposed for Cincinnati
Found: 1 Day 22 Hours 44 Minutes ago
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City's budget better than others'
Found: 2 Days 15 Hours 16 Minutes ago
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati's budget for next year includes a $14 million deficit, but officials still say the financial picture for the city is better than expected - and no major layoffs are foreseen....
'Northside Taliband'gang busted
Found: 3 Days 2 Hours 25 Minutes ago
Cincinnati Enquirer - In what Cincinnati cops say is the largest criminal gang prosecution in the history of the city, a number of local, state and federal agencies have cracked down on a gang in Northside that calls itself the "Northside Taliband.''...
Muskies top Roanoke in OT
Found: 3 Days 6 Hours 4 Minutes ago
The Daily Jeffersonian - LEXINGTON, Va. -- Muskingum College got its first win of the season Sunday, knocking off Roanoke College, 83-79, in overtime at the Washington &Lee Tournament.Trevor Scott led the Muskies with 27 points and four rebounds on thr...
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Found: 3 Days 6 Hours 41 Minutes ago
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New twist would bill retirees by income
Found: 3 Days 11 Hours 18 Minutes ago
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Flames destroy Milton Township barn
Found: 3 Days 15 Hours 2 Minutes ago
Ashland Times-Gazette - Fire destroyed a barn and its contents Saturday afternoon on Township Road 1656 in Milton Township. The fire was reported about 2:15 p.m. and the barn, which sits at the back of a long lane, was engulfed in flames when City Fire Department firefighters arrived....
And they call this ?free?agency: Yankees waste no time, make Sabathia ...
Found: 5 Days 17 Hours 34 Minutes ago
The Chronicle-Telegram - NEW YORK — Joe Girardi said this week he’d enjoy showing free agents around the new Yankee Stadium. CC Sabathia is one of the players the New York manager has in mind for a tour of the spacious clubhouse, players lounge, indoor batting cage and underground hot tub. Free-agent season opened Friday with [...]...
Woman enjoys uncovering quilt stories
Found: 1 Week 9 Hours 10 Minutes ago
Dayton Daily News - "Blessed are the children (daughters, sons) of quilters for they shall inherit the quilts." — Author unknown. ...
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