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| Killer's Request For Freedom Denied |
| By freep.com |
| Published: 02/08/2010 |
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IONIA -- Time may have the capacity to heal all wounds. But 24 years doesn't. That was obvious during two hours of gut-wrenching testimony from the family of murder victim John Hubbard at a hearing last month to consider whether one of his killers should be freed. "Roger Ruthruff hated my husband," his wife, Lola Hubbard, told the state panel considering whether to recommend clemency to Gov. Jennifer Granholm. "Roger Ruthruff planned the murder. Roger Ruthruff needs to continue to wake up every day behind those prison bars ... and think about what he took from us." Ruthruff bowed his head and listened quietly to her words. He was 18 in 1986, when the robbery of a mid-Michigan grocery went awry and his partner bludgeoned Hubbard. With a spotless prison record, his secondary role in the crime and his youth at the time, Ruthruff is one of the rare but increasing number of Michigan prisoners who get the chance to make a formal plea for commutation. Read More. |
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