Petition to Commute the Death Sentence of Daniel Wilson
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Petition to Commute the Death Sentence of Daniel Wilson
We, the undersigned, urge Governor Strickland to commute the sentence of Daniel Wilson. Mr. Wilson is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, June 3, 2009. In March of 1992, Mr. Wilson was convicted and sentenced to death for the May 4, 1991 murder of Carol Lutz.
Several factors in Mr. Wilsons case history merit executive clemency, principally that the trial courts explanation of the cases sole death sentence specification to the trial jury was ruled to be constitutionally erroneous and invalid by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (No. 03-3362 Wilson v. Mitchell, August 15, 2007). The erroneous trial court instruction allowed the jury to consider the death sentence while being improperly instructed how to consider and weigh the evidence in mitigation when considering the death penalty specification. Wilson is the only person on Ohios Death Row that has not had a jury weigh a valid death sentence specification.
Other mitigating factors include Daniels remarkably abusive childhood, his expression of deep regret for and acceptance of responsibility for the pain he caused, and his successful efforts to become a positive and productive member of the Ohio prison population as demonstrated by his serving as legal typist and librarian in the death row library as well as a GED tutor. Governor Strickland should commute the death sentence of Daniel Wilson.
We, the undersigned, urge Governor Strickland to commute the sentence of Daniel Wilson. Mr. Wilson is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, June 3, 2009. In March of 1992, Mr. Wilson was convicted and sentenced to death for the May 4, 1991 murder of Carol Lutz.
Several factors in Mr. Wilsons case history merit executive clemency, principally that the trial courts explanation of the cases sole death sentence specification to the trial jury was ruled to be constitutionally erroneous and invalid by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (No. 03-3362 Wilson v. Mitchell, August 15, 2007). The erroneous trial court instruction allowed the jury to consider the death sentence while being improperly instructed how to consider and weigh the evidence in mitigation when considering the death penalty specification. Wilson is the only person on Ohios Death Row that has not had a jury weigh a valid death sentence specification.
Other mitigating factors include Daniels remarkably abusive childhood, his expression of deep regret for and acceptance of responsibility for the pain he caused, and his successful efforts to become a positive and productive member of the Ohio prison population as demonstrated by his serving as legal typist and librarian in the death row library as well as a GED tutor. Governor Strickland should commute the death sentence of Daniel Wilson.
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Nicholas B
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Life sentence better fits the crime. Given his background, he at least deserves this much kindness from the society he was brought into. One of the saddest situations of which I am aware.
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Please examine the case on an individual basis because a jury does not always hear all the facts. Thank you for your time and concern on these death row cases.
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