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| Death Row inmate's appeal denied |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/04/2005 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court last week rejected an appeal from Ohio's longest-serving death row inmate. John Spirko was convicted in the 1982 killing of postal working Betty Jane Mottinger. Spirko says he's innocent. He says the state's case against him was weakened when death penalty charges against his co-defendant were dropped last year. An important element of the state's case was a witness who said co-defendant Delaney Gibson was near the post office the day Mottinger disappeared. Gibson was imprisoned in Kentucky until 2001 on an unrelated murder conviction. Charges against him were dropped because county prosecutors said the case was too old to try when he was released from prison in Kentucky. |
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