Carlos Sanders Ohio Death Row

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Carlos Sanders was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for a prison murder. According to court documents Carlos Sanders was involved in a prison riot at Lucasville that left a prison guard, 40-year-old Robert Vallandingham, dead, Carlos Sanders would be convicted and sentenced to death.

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Carlos Sanders 2021 Information

Number R130559

DOB 01/04/1963

Gender Male Race Black

Admission Date 08/22/1984

InstitutionOhio State Penitentiary

Status INCARCERATED

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Allowing prisoners convicted for their role in Ohio’s deadly 1993 prison riot to conduct face-to-face media interviews could give them too much “notoriety and influence” among fellow prisoners and cause problems throughout the correctional system, the state argues in a new court filing.

The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction calls a lawsuit seeking such interviews frivolous and wants a federal judge to throw it out.

The interviews are banned because of the state’s concern “regarding safety and security and the fear that these prisoners would thereby gain a disproportionate degree of notoriety and influence among their fellow inmates,” according to documents the state filed Monday in a Columbus court.

That influence could lead “to substantial disciplinary problems that could engulf large portions of the prisons,” the filing said.

The Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union sued the state in December, arguing the prison system’s policy is inconsistent, especially when the backgrounds of other high-security prisoners granted access to reporters is reviewed.

The only plausible reason for granting interviews to other prisoners while denying access to the Lucasville ones “is the desire to stifle public discussion of the 1993 Lucasville prison uprising,” according to the ACLU.

Under recent policy changes, Lucasville riot prisoners may make telephone calls of up to an hour, including to reporters. But the prisoners have argued that in-person meetings captured on video are a more powerful way to tell their side of the story.

The ACLU lawsuit was brought on behalf of Noelle Hanrahan, director and producer of Prison Radio in Philadelphia; Christopher Hedges, an author and former New York Times reporter in Princeton, N.J.; Derrick Jones, a former Bowling Green State University professor now at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colo.; and James Ridgeway, co-editor of a website, “Solitary Watch” in Washington, D.C.

The lawsuit was also brought on behalf of death row inmates Siddique Abdullah Hasan, George Skatzes, Keith Lamar and Jason Robb, and prisoner Gregory Curry, who is serving a life sentence for the Lucasville riots.

Martin Rojas Ohio Death Row

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Martin Rojas was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for sexual assault and murder. According to court documents Martin Rojas would wait for the victim outside of her home and when she arrived the woman was dragged inside where she was stabbed multiple times, sexually assaulted and attempted to set the home on fire. Martin Rojas would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Martin Rojas 2021 Information

Number A203038

DOB 11/02/1959

Gender Male Race White

Admission Date 05/06/1988

Institution Chillicothe Correctional Institution

Status INCARCERATED

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Jason Robb Ohio Death Row

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Jason Robb was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for a number of prison murder that occurred during a riot. According to court documents Jason Robb would be held responsible for the murders of a prison guard and a fellow inmate. Jason Robb would be convicted and sentenced to death.

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Jason Robb 2021 Information

Number A308919

DOB 06/15/1967

Gender Male Race White

Admission Date 04/12/1995

Institution Ohio State Penitentiary

Status INCARCERATED

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Ohio is keeping six death row inmates at the state’s super-max prison even as most condemned killers are moved to a new death row facility.  

The prisoners staying at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown include four defendants sentenced to die for their roles in the 1993 Lucasville prison riot.  

Prisons spokesman Carlo LoParo tells the Springfield News-Sun ) the six prisoners are highest security risks, meaning they’re prone to repeated violent actions against prison staff and inmates.  

Ohio has begun moving its death row to the Chillicothe Correctional Institution in southern Ohio.  

The inmates staying in Youngstown are: Jason Dean of ClarkCounty and Edward Lang of Stark County; and Lucasville riot offenders James Were, Keith Lamar, Carlos Sanders, and Jason Robb.  

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Walter Raglin Ohio Death Row

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Walter Raglin was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for robbery murder. According to court documents Walter Raglin would shoot and kill Michael Bany in the process of robbing him. Walter Raglin would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Walter Raglin 2021 Information

Number A338114

DOB 06/03/1977

Gender Male Race Black

Admission Date 11/08/1996

Institution Chillicothe Correctional Institution

Status INCARCERATED

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Wayne Powell Ohio Death Row

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Wayne Powell was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for four murders. According to court documents Wayne Powell was in a fight with his girlfriend and would leave the home and return the next day setting the home on fire killing  33-year-old Mary McCollum; her mother, 52-year-old Rose McCollum; her son, four-year-old Jamal McCollum-Myers; and her niece, two-year-old Sanaa Thomas. Wayne Powell would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Wayne Powell 2021 Information

Number A559624

DOB 08/04/1965

Gender Male Race Black

Admission Date 10/09/2007

Institution Chillicothe Correctional Institution

Status INCARCERATED

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The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday found “overwhelming evidence” to support the murder convictions of a former Toledo man as it upheld his death sentences for the 2006 Toledo house fire that killed four people, including two children.

The court, in weighing the sentence, considered Wayne Powell’s past growing up in a dysfunctional family as well as his history of drug and alcohol abuse, but in the end it found none of it could outweigh what he did.

“Powell set fire to a home in the middle of the night,” wrote Justice Paul Pfeifer. “Eight people were inside the home at the time of the fire, including five children and a disabled woman.

“Powell knew that people were inside the home when he started the fire, because he had been there earlier in the evening,” he wrote. “Four people, including two children, died during the fire. These facts establish a senseless, horrific crime that lacks any mitigating features.”

The fire at 814 St. John Ave. in the early morning of Nov. 11, 2006, killed Powell’s 33-year-old former girlfriend, Mary Rose McCollum; her 4-year-old son, Jamal McCollum-Myers; her 52-year-old ailing mother, Rosemary, and her 3-year-old niece, Sanaa’ Thomas.

The Lucas County jury had agreed with the prosecution that Powell, now 46, followed through with prior threats to burn the house where he once lived by pouring gasoline through a crack in a door and then setting the blaze while the victims and several others slept inside.

The court did not accept Powell’s arguments of ineffectiveness of counsel and most other issues that his attorneys raised.

But it did agree that several errors had occurred, including the trial court’s decision to allow the jury to be shown a videotape in which Isaac Powell told police his brother had admitted to pouring gasoline onto the side of the house. Isaac Powell testified during the trial that he couldn’t recall such a statement. Powell’s attorneys had maintained that the video was the last thing the jury saw before beginning deliberations and again during deliberations when it asked a question.

But in such areas where the court agreed errors had occurred, it found them to be “harmless errors” that wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the case.

“There was overwhelming evidence of guilt,” said Lucas County Assistant Prosecutor David Cooper. “We were able to preserve the conviction and sentence despite harmless error.”

Among that “overwhelming evidence” were phone records showing a string of 88 calls Wayne Powell made to Mary Rose McCollum from two different phones over several hours, calls that abruptly ended about the time of the fire. Police also discovered gasoline on his clothes.

Mr. Cooper said the case was deserving of the death penalty.

“Four people dead in a horrible way,” he said. “Four innocent people, two of them children.”

Powell is on death row at Chillicothe Correctional Institution. He has other state and federal appeals routes available to him, but first his attorneys are expected to ask this court to reconsider this decision.

“We’re in the process of studying this decision,” said one of his attorneys, Spiros Cocoves. “We do note, however, that the court acknowledged a significant number of errors by the trial court, but found them harmless. We disagree with that.”

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