The only woman on Ohio’s Death Row has seen her latest appeal for post-conviction relief fail.
The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday announced it has declined to review the decision by Ohio’s 11th District Court of Appeals that upheld the conviction and death sentence of Donna Roberts. The Howland woman was charged in the 2001 murder of her husband, Robert Fingerhut, at the couple’s Fonderlac Drive home.
Roberts, 76, was convicted along with her boyfriend Nathaniel Jackson, who shot Fingerhut to death on Dec. 11, 2001.
Roberts had filed an appeal saying she had ineffective counsel at her jury trial and was not granted an evidence hearing during the appeals process. In August 2020, the 11th District court disagreed, with Judge Matt Lynch writing Roberts’ arguments had no merit. The high court decided this week not to review that appellate decision.
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