Unit 1012: The Victims' Families For The Death Penalty.: TRUMBULL COUNTY ASSISTANT PROSECUTOR CHRIS BECKER SPEAKS IN DEFENSE OF OHIO DEATH PENALTY

If the criminal taking of a human life does not merit forfeiture of one's own life, then what value have we placed on the life taken? - Pat Buchanan

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Article: http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2015/11/scalia-v-pope-whos-right-on-death.html

We, the members of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, send our utmost thanks to the Trumbull County Prosecutors for helping us defend the death penalty in Ohio and also spoke out against SB256.

Valley prosecutor says only voters should decide future of death penalty

Assistant Trumbull County Prosecutor Chris Becker is expected to say that only the voters of Ohio should be allowed to eliminate the death penalty when he addresses the House Criminal Justice Committee as it reviews House Bill 183.

Wednesday, November 10th 2021, 5:42 AM EST

By Mike Gauntner

A long-time prosecuting attorney from the Valley will be testifying against a bill to repeal Ohio’s death penalty when a state House Committee considers the measure in Columbus on Wednesday.

The bill was introduced in February by two State Representatives, Republican Jean Schmidt and Democrat Adam Miller, just three months after Governor Mike DeWine declared an unofficial moratorium on executions, saying lethal injection is no longer an option for Ohio executions.

In a transcript of his planned testimony, Prosecutor Becker plans to speak on behalf of his boss, Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins.

Becker is highly critical of state legislative actions over the past 30 years, saying lawmakers have “eroded and shrunk the penalties for the worst offenders,” citing among other examples, measures that reduced penalties for felons who use weapons to commit crimes and another that reduces prison time for parole violators.

Becker singled out a recently enacted law that would allow parole for juveniles convicted of murder.

“Now this body is considering eliminating the death penalty and cow-towing to the special interests,” said Becker. “The Ohio Legislature should be actively seeking ways to implement and use the death penalty in the State of Ohio on the most heinous of criminals sitting on our death row like Donna Roberts, Nathaniel Jackson, Danny Lee Hill, and others.”

Roberts and Jackson were sentenced to death for murdering Roberts’ husband in 2001, but to this date remain in prison.

Danny Lee Hill received a death sentence for the 1985 rape, torture, and murder of 12-year-old Warren boy scout Raymond Fife. In August, a federal appellate court upheld Hill’s sentence.

“It is 2021. It is time to end the death penalty,” said HB 183 co-sponsor Adam Miller when he introduced the measure. “Apart from moral, ethical, and spiritual reasons to oppose capital punishment, the carrying out of executions raises significant concerns on who is sentenced to death and how that sentence is carried out. It is long past time Ohio joins the global community in ending the death penalty.”

Citing a record-breaking murder rate in Warren last year, Becker and Watkins disagree with Miller, saying the bill is unneeded and unwanted by Ohioans.

“To those that say Capital Punishment is not a deterrent it is not meant to be a deterrent. Neither are the Rape, Robbery, or Burglary statutes. Those laws are intended to punish the violent and destructive members of our society,” said Becker. “The Death Penalty is the ultimate penalty for the ultimate crime and should only be repealed by a vote of the electorate of the State of Ohio.”

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.wfmj.com/story/45160783/valley-prosecutor-says-only-voters-should-decide-future-of-death-penalty

Those who allow violent criminals the opportunity to kill, maim and rape, share the responsibility for it and the tragedy such crimes produce. More, they allow these monsters to create for all of us a world as dark and evil as their own.

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"Of the 62 people sent to death row from Hamilton County since 1981, 25 of them were eventually removed (by commutation, judicial action, exoneration, etc.)," he says. "While some Hamilton County death penalty cases have been reversed on a procedural issue or the governor has granted mercy through his commutation power, no death penalty defendant from Hamilton County has been 'exonerated' or found 'innocent,' " Deters writes in a statement. " 'Innocent' to me means that the defendant did NOT commit the crime."

Some examples of killers sentenced to death in Ohio:

1. August A. Cassano - Ohio Death Row Summary of Offense: On October 21, 1997, Cassano murdered his cellmate, 22-year-old Walter Hardy, at Mansfield Correctional Institution. Cassano stabbed Hardy 75 times with a homemade knife. Cassano was serving a life sentence for an aggravated murder in 1976 and had previously stabbed another cellmate in 1992, according to the corrections department. http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?3021-August-A-Cassano-Ohio-Death-Row

2 to 7. Keith LaMar - Ohio Execution - November 16, 2023 Summary of Offense: During the riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (Lucasville), LaMar murdered five prison inmates, Darrell Depina, Bruce Vitale, William Svette, Dennis Weaver and Albert Staiano, whom LaMar believed were snitches. When prison inmates held prison guards and other inmates hostage, LaMar formed a group of prison inmates, called the "Death Squad," to kill snitches. Between April 11, 1993 and April 21, 1993, on five separate occasions, Lamar and his followers beat, strangled and stabbed each victim to death. At the time, LaMar was serving a sentence for a 1989 murder conviction. LaMar received the death sentence for the aggravated murders of Mr. Depina, Mr. Vitale, Mr. Svette and Mr. Weaver. Also sentenced to death for murders committed during the riot were Jason Robb, Carlos Sanders, George Skatzes and James Were. http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?3085-Keith-LaMar-Ohio-Execution-November-16-2023

8. James Galen Hanna - Ohio Execution - May 18, 2022 Summary of Offense: On August 22, 1997, Hanna attacked his 43-year-old cellmate, Peter Copas, at the Lebanon Correctional Institution. Hanna thrust a sharpened paintbrush into Mr. Copas' eye and hit him in the head with a padlock placed in a sock. Mr. Copas died as a result of his injuries on September 10, 1997. http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?3053-James-Galen-Hanna-Ohio-Execution-May-18-2022

9. Von Clark Davis - Ohio Death Row Summary of Offense: On December 12, 1983, Davis murdered his former girlfriend, 27-year-old Suzette Butler, outside the American Legion Post 520 in Hamilton. Davis shot Ms. Butler in the head at close range and continued to shoot her after she fell to the ground. At the time, Davis was on parole after serving prison time for murdering his wife. Davis was re-sentenced to death on September 10, 2009. http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?3032-Von-Clark-Davis-Ohio-Death-Row&fbclid=IwAR1bsgadogZ2l-thjJIblx3N84nwT4HfdyDEXzybx55S2wyrDCKHV7A98Bk

10. Michael Madison (born October 15, 1977) is a convicted serial killer from East Cleveland, Ohio who is known to have committed at least three murders. He was captured and arrested in 2013. In 2016 he was sentenced to death. Madison is currently being held on death row. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Madison

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2016/07/father-attacks-daughters-killer-in-court.html

11. Anthony Kirkland (born September 13, 1968) is an American serial killer. Between 2006 and 2009, Kirkland murdered two women and two girls in the Cincinnati area, following a 16-year prison term for the 1987 killing of his girlfriend. http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2015/03/cincinnati-serial-killer-anthony.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Kirkland

12. George Brinkman Jr. (born 1972) is an American spree killer who took the lives of five people during a 2017 killing spree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brinkman_murders http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2018/12/ohio-serial-killer-george-brinkman-jr.html

13. On this date, May 21, 2019, a judge imposed the death penalty on a 32-year-old man convicted of the execution-style murders of a couple during a break-in attempt at their family-owned car lot. Joseph McAlpin will pay the law’s ultimate penalty in the 2017 shooting deaths of Michael Kuznik and Trina Tomola inside Mr. Cars on East 185th Street. http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2019/05/joseph-mcalpin-sentenced-to-death-for.html

14. On this date, August 13, 2019, Thomas Knuff was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing his former prison pen-pal and the man she lived with, then trying to hire a man to set fire to the home that housed their decaying bodies. http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2019/08/parma-heights-double-killer-pen-pal.html

15. Kristofer Garrett was sentenced to death in Columbus, Ohio on September 11, 2019. He was convicted of fatally stabbing his 4-year-old daughter and her mother outside their Ohio home on January 5, 2018. http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2019/09/double-killer-kristofer-garrett.html

16. On this date, November 13, 2019, Matthew Nicholson was sentenced to death for murdering two siblings in front of their mother. http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2020/09/in-loving-memory-of-two-siblings.html

http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2019/11/matthew-nicholson-gets-death-penalty.html

17. On this date, May 18, 2020, Joel Drain was sentenced to death for the murder of his inmate, Christopher Richardson in 2019. Drain was already serving a life sentence where Court records indicate that he strangled Randy Grose, 56, while stabbing him numerous times in the head and stomach. Another good reason why murderers will kill behind bars.

https://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2020/05/prison-killer-joel-drain-sentenced-to.html

18. A sex offender has been sentenced to death in Ohio for kidnapping, torturing, raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in a horrific attack. Christopher Whitaker, 45, will spend the rest of his days on death row after the judge followed the jury's recommendation for the horrific slaying of Alianna Defreeze in Januaury, 2017.

https://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2018/03/sex-offender-christopher-witaker.html

19. Shawn Michael Grate (born August 8, 1976) is an American convicted serial killer who murdered numerous young women in northern Ohio. Grate was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder on May 7, 2018, in Ashland County, Ohio, pleaded guilty to two additional murders on March 1, 2019 in Richland County, Ohio, and who pleaded guilty to an additional murder on September 11, 2019 in Marion County, Ohio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Grate

Snakes are poisonous wherever they are. You can't underestimate a snake just because there's only one. It's dangerous wherever it is. - Ashin Wirathu

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Please contact the following people to fight against repeal of the death penalty:

Please email the politicians in Ohio and ask them not to repeal bills S.B. 103 and H.B. 183. It will end the death penalty and LWOP will be the next target. They are already releasing killers all over the country....

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Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft. – Don Feder

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Trumbull County Asst. Prosecutor Chris Becker speaks to Ohio House Criminal Justice Committee

Nov 12, 2021

Brian Kirk

Chris Becker also touches on SB256.

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-H70AK7V9g&t=9s

FACBOOK VIDEO SOURCE:

VKONTAKE VIDEO SOURCE: https://vk.com/wall-184585082_341

RUMBLE VIDEO SOURCE: https://rumble.com/vp718i-trumbull-county-asst.-prosecutor-chris-becker-speaks-to-ohio-house-criminal.html

https://www.wytv.com/news/local-news/trumbull-county-prosecutor-heads-to-columbus-with-strong-argument-for-death-penalty/

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2021/06/show-me-money-larry-householder.html

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2020/09/ohio-state-parole-board-releasing-two.html

October 19, 2021 will mark 40 years that Ohio enacted its current death penalty statute. 40 years of racial injustice, 40 years of wrongful convictions, and 40 years harming the families of murder victims.

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LETTER: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3350621811720081/posts/3763109140471344/

Why it’s time to declare the death penalty dead: Margery M. Koosed

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2077068945777799&id=1299628893521812

https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2021/10/why-its-time-to-declare-the-death-penalty-dead-margery-m-koosed.html

At 96, Lake County rapist is the oldest inmate in Ohio’s prisons: See the 10 oldest

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https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2021/10/at-96-lake-county-rapist-is-the-oldest-inmate-in-ohios-prisons-see-the-10-oldest.html

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Please email the politicians in Ohio and ask them not to repeal bills S.B. 103 and H.B. 183.

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Ohio Supreme Court says prison protocol for executions doesn't need formal rule approval