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Crime and Courts


Governor Strickland to decide on Getsy's clemency
Ohio Parole Board recommended clemency for the man convicted of a 1995 shooting
by WKSU's STATEHOUSE CORRESPONDENT JO INGLES


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Governor Ted Strickland is trying to decide whether to follow the Ohio Parole Board's clemency recommendation for death-row inmate Jason Getsy. He was convicted of killing a Youngstown area woman and wounding her son in 1995. Getsy got the death sentence, but the man who ordered the killing, John Santine, got 20 years to life. Getsy's attorney, says Getsy would not have committed the crime if he hadn't feared for his own life at the hands of Santine. Andrew Welsh Huggins has written a book on the history of the death penalty in Ohio, and he says it's not uncommon for disparities in sentencing in these types of situations.
Andrew Welsh Huggins on the use of the death penalty in Ohio

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Get rid of him; he has taken two lives and had attempted to exterminate a third human being. A jury of Getsy's peers decided his fate and despite the Parole Board's 5-2 recommendation in favor of clemency, they cannot second guess this verdict. There is no dispute as to Getsy's guilt and no compelling reason exists to warrant Governor Strickland to circumvent his death sentence. Any rationalization that Getsy should live because Santine (the supposed "mastermind")didn't receive a death sentence is simply absurd and a classic example of convaluded logic.


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