Cleveland, OH
Ohio Supreme Court upholds death penalty for man guilty of raping, torturing, killing 14-year-old girl
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -19 Information is studying extra concerning the Ohio Supreme Court docket determination to maintain the person who killed Alianna DeFreeze on dying row.
Christopher Whitaker was sentenced to dying in 2018 for kidnapping, raping and torturing the 14-year-old woman in a vacant residence as she was on her technique to college.
Whitaker appealed the sentence and requested the court docket for all times in jail as an alternative however he was denied.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Mike O’Malley and Assistant Prosecutor Mahmoud Awadallah, who tried the case, advised 19 Information that regardless of Whitaker’s makes an attempt to get off dying row, he’s ‘proper the place he belongs.’
There are 130 individuals on dying row in Ohio.
Christopher Whitaker’s execution has been scheduled for July 2026 however Ohio has not executed an inmate since 2018. The state has not but discovered a alternative for deadly injection medicine.
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