In my more than four decades as a law professor, I have studied issues of fairness in our criminal justice system, particularly in the area of the death penalty. Thus I was struck by a question that a juror who served Ray Tibbetts’ capital trial, Ross Allen Geiger, posed in a letter to Gov. John […]
George D. Alexander: a retired warden supports clemency for death row inmate Ray Tibbetts
I spent almost 30 years of my life working in the Ohio prison system, beginning as a chaplain at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. I later worked in a number of other positions, eventually serving as warden at Madison, London and Pickaway correctional institutions. My time working directly with inmates showed me what my faith […]
Beacon Journal/Ohio.com Editorial Board: An appropriate case for the Governor to grant clemency
John Kasich made an unusual request of the Ohio Parole Board. The governor received a letter from a juror in a capital punishment case going back two decades. The juror explained that he had discovered the public record now contains more information about the case than was presented to the jury. He told the governor […]