Kasich spares life of convicted killer on death row after revelations of childhood abuse
By Avery Anapol - 07/21/18 09:47 AM EDT
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Friday commuted the sentence of a death row inmate following revelations about the inmate’s childhood abuse.
Raymond Tibbetts, 61, was convicted more than 20 years ago in the killing of his wife and another man in separate incidents on the same day.
Kasich commuted Tibbets’s sentence to life without the possibility of parole, according to CBS News.
“Specifically, the defense's failure to present sufficient mitigating evidence, coupled with an inaccurate description of Tibbetts' childhood by the prosecution, essentially prevented the jury from making an informed decision about whether Tibbetts deserved the death sentence," Kasich said in a statement.
Tibbetts received a sentence of life in prison for killing his then-42-year-old wife during an argument about his crack cocaine habit, and a death sentence for fatally stabbing a man for whom Tibbetts was working as a caretaker.
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