Former Death Row Inmates Sue Ohio for Denying Them Parole newsweek.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsweek.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Two
Ohio civil rights organizations have filed suit against the state’s parole board, alleging that the board has an illegal policy of automatically denying parole to anyone who was formerly sentenced to death.
On July 28, 2021, the
American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and the
Ohio Justice & Policy Center sued the Ohio Parole Board on behalf of
Patricia Wernert and
George Clayton (pictured), both of whom were sentenced to death under a law that was declared unconstitutional in 1978. Neither Wernert nor Clayton committed the murders for which they were sentenced to death. After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Ohio’s death-sentencing statute in
Statehouse News Bureau
A gavel sculpture sits outside of the Ohio Supreme Court in Columbus. A lawsuit filed on behalf of two inmates who have served more than 40 years in prison says the Ohio Parole Board has not given the inmates fair hearings.
A lawsuit claims that Ohio has an unwritten policy of denying release to death row inmates who were re-sentenced after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Ohio’s death penalty in 1978.
The Ohio Justice and Policy Center and the ACLU of Ohio have filed suit for Patricia Wernert and George Clayton, who were resentenced after the 1978 ruling to 20 years to life with a chance at parole. They’ve both been in prison for more than 40 years and been repeatedly denied parole.
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