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nofurylike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-10 12:28 AM
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"one of the State’s supposed 'witnesses' ... does not
actually exist."

Kevin Keith is INNOCENTand Ohio wants to KILL HIM!!!
Please read the information, all of it!!!

Please, Ohioans, please step up and stop this from happening!!!!

Petition:

http://www.change.org/petitions/view/relief_urgently_needed_for_innocent_man_on_ohios_death_row

Clemency For Kevin Keith
Hello,

The State of Ohio is poised to execute Kevin Keith on September 15, 2010, in spite of overwhelming evidence supporting what Mr. Keith has maintained from the time of his arrest – he is actually innocent, wrongfully convicted of a crime based on faulty eyewitness identification.

Mr. Keith has an alibi for the time of the crime supported by four witnesses.

The Ohio Innocence Project, the National Innocence Network, and a group of leading eyewitness and memory experts all support relief for Mr. Keith.

I urgently appeal to the Ohio Parole Board and Governor Ted Strickland to grant clemency to Kevin Keith to prevent the State of Ohio from doing the intolerable: putting a man to death for a crime he did not commit.

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Website:

http://www.kevinkeith.org/

An Innocent Man on Ohio's Death Row

Kevin Keith is an innocent man on Ohio’s death row, wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit based on faulty eyewitness identification – the leading cause of wrongful convictions nationwide. He has an alibi for the time of the crime supported by four witnesses. There is no forensic evidence that conclusively links him to the crime. Mr. Keith is scheduled to be executed on September 15, 2010.

In 2007, after all of his allotted appeals were exhausted, new counsel took on Mr. Keith’s case. Upon investigating, counsel discovered new evidence for Mr. Keith that supported what Mr. Keith was saying from day one – he is actually innocent.

Prominent supporters from around the country have filed supporting briefs and urged review in Mr. Keith's case, including the National Innocence Network, an affiliation of over 50 innocence projects and legal organizations around the country, the Ohio Innocence Project, an organization that typically only works on non-death penalty cases involving DNA evidence, and a group of leading eyewitness and memory experts.

New evidence discovered by counsel for Mr. Keith discredits the eyewitness identification used to convict Mr. Keith. New evidence also identifies an alternative suspect who made a before-the-fact admission that he planned to commit the crime for which Mr. Keith stands to be executed.

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PLEASE!!!!

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nofurylike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-02-10 07:46 PM
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1. Thank you, someone, for the rec! sorry i didn't see sooner!!
Please keep spreading word and signing!!


solidarity!
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