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Harry Mitts Ohio Execution

Harry Mitts was executed by the State of Ohio for a double murder. According to court documents Harry Mitts would shoot and kill the first victim when he was walking across the parking lot. During the police search for the gunman Harry Mitts would fire several shots through the door striking and killing a police officer. Harry Mitts would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Harry Mitts would be executed by lethal injection on September 25, 2013

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Garfield Heights killer Harry Mitts Jr. was executed Wednesday after spending nearly two decades on death row for gunning down his neighbor and a police officer.

A lethal injection stopped Mitts’ heart at 10:39 a.m.

Mitts, 61, was sentenced to death in November 1994 after a full-bore firefight at his apartment complex that left neighbor John Bryant and Garfield Heights Police Sgt. Dennis Glivar dead.

Harry Mitts used his last words to ask for forgiveness and encourage the victims’ families to find salvation in Jesus Christ.

“I’m so sorry for taking your loved ones’ lives,” Mitts said with tears in his eyes. “I had no business doing what I did and I’ve been carrying that burden with me for 19 years.

“Please don’t carry that hatred for me with you in your hearts.”

Mitts’ lethal injection lasted nearly 35 minutes.

At 10:05 a.m., corrections officers walked a calm Mitts into the death chamber, where he was strapped to a steel bed and hooked up to lines that would deliver deadly chemicals.

After his final words, Mitts stared at the ceiling while authorities in another room delivered the injection.

Harry Mitts closed his eyes and took increasingly labored breaths. About a minute later, he began to snore.

The snoring soon stopped and Mitts’ breathing gradually slowed. His face turned blue by the time he took his last peaceful gasp.

Harry Mitts is the last person to be put to death in Ohio using the drug pentobarbital. The state’s supply of pentobarbital was expected to run out with Mitts’ executions today. Department of Rehabilitation and Correction will announce by Oct. 4 how it will respond, according to spokeswoman Ricky Seyfang

“I know its wrong, but I still have hatred for him,” said Bryant’s sister Johnnal after the execution.

Glivar’s widow Debbie said she would never forgive Mitts.

Mitts’ friend Gary Hopkins joined ministers Edward Jenkins and Lucian Piaskowiak on the inmate’s side of the witness room.

All of the witnesses watched in silence as Mitts slipped away.

Harry Mitts began his hours-long rampage on the evening of Aug. 14, 1994 by firing a laser-sighted round into Bryant’s chest as Bryant and his girlfriend were returning home from grocery shopping.

Bryant, who was black, and his girlfriend, who was white, were walking from the parking lot to their apartment when Mitts approached the couple.

He raised his gun, uttered racial slurs and shot 28-year-old Bryant point blank. Against Mitts’ orders, neighbors carried Bryant to a second-floor apartment and waited for help to arrive.

Harry Mitts then walked away, randomly firing his weapon, and prepared for the imminent police response. Mitts hoped for a suicide by cop, according to Ohio Parole Board documents.

Harry Mitts fired eight to 10 rounds at the first patrol car to approach the complex and then fled to his first-floor apartment.

Glivar and Kaiser arrived soon after and located Bryant, who bled out before they arrived. The officers returned downstairs to ensure the building was safe for paramedics to enter.

That is when Mitts, who clenched a .44 Magnum in one fist and a 9 mm pistol in the other, sprung open his apartment door and let loose a volley of gunfire.

Glivar, 44, was shot seven times. Bullets ripped through his heart, lung, liver, kidney and stomach. He collapsed near the door, dropped his shotgun and died within minutes.

Kaiser was shot in the chest and hand but managed to force Mitts to retreat by firing in the killer’s direction. Kaiser then took cover upstairs and kept watch on Mitts’ apartment.

“We didn’t even know he lived there,” Kaiser said Tuesday. “He was just waiting for us. Maybe he was looking through his peephole. He took us by surprise.”

Kaiser tried to talk Mitts into surrendering. Mitts refused.

“The only way we’re going to end this is if you kill me,” Mitts shouted, according to clemency documents. “You have to come down. You have to do your job and you have to kill me.”

Minutes later, Maple Heights Police Officer John Mackey arrived at the complex and helped Kaiser rescue tenants upstairs by guiding them down a ladder propped against a back window.

Mackey and Kaiser then took positions outside Mitts apartment while the gunman fired sporadic shots using Glivar’s dropped shotgun and weapons from his home arsenal.

At one point, Mitts was able to pick out Mackey’s location by the sound of the officer’s voice carrying through the hallway.

Harry Mitts fired through a wall and hit Mackey.

The bloody gun battle ended hours later when a SWAT team shot tear gas into Mitts’ apartment and subdued the wounded triggerman.

Mitts was charged with the aggravated murders of Bryant and Glivar, and the attempted murders of Kaiser and Mackey.

Three months later, the man with no previous criminal record was sentenced to death.

Authorities found thousands of rounds of ammunition in Mitts’ home and a bumper sticker that read: “Gun control means hitting what you aim at.”

The Ohio Parole Board said Mitts’ deadly confrontation is “clearly among the worst of the worst capital cases.”

Mitts began to tailspin in the weeks leading to the massacre. He began stalking his ex wife and her new husband, and admitted he thought about assassinating the man

Prosecutors argued Mitts’ attack was racially motivated, but defense attorneys contended Mitts killed Bryant only to lure police.

Last week, Gov. John Kasich denied Mitts clemency, siding with the parole board’s unanimous recommendation to carry out the death sentence.

Mitts told the parole board in August he found God while incarcerated at the Cuyahoga County Jail and looked forward to living “in perpetuity with Jesus Christ” after his execution

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2013/09/harry_mitts_jr_executed.html

Frederick Treesh Ohio Execution

Frederick Treesh was executed by the State of Ohio for the murder of security guard. According to court documents Frederick Treesh was on a multi state crime spree which would end with the shooting death of Henry Dupree in Eastlake on Aug. 27, 1994. Frederick Treesh was also suspected of killing another man in Michigan however he was not charged. Frederick Treesh would be executed by lethal injection on March 6, 2013.

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A man who fatally shot an adult bookstore security guard in 1994 at the end of a multistate crime spree was executed today.

Frederick Treesh received a single powerful dose of pentobarbital and was pronounced dead at 10:37 by Donald Morgan, warden of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.

Treesh was sentenced to die for killing Henry Dupree in Eastlake on Aug. 27, 1994.

Treesh, in a last statement, apologized for the death of Dupree, but said he wouldn’t say he was sorry to family members of a video store clerk killed in Michigan who were witnessing the execution.

“I’ve never been tried, I’ve never been charged,” he said.

After a few more comments he said, “If you want me murdered, just say it.”

Treesh was the 50th inmate put to death by the state since it resumed executions in 1999.

Gov. John Kasich denied Treesh clemency last week, following the recommendation of the state parole board, which ruled unanimously last month that the evidence showed Dupree was seated when shot and hadn’t shown any sign of being a threat to Treesh. The board also said Treesh’s decision to shoot a clerk in the face as he left the store suggests Treesh’s “murderous intent” when coming to the store.

Treesh and his co-defendant “gratuitously brutalized, humiliated and killed innocent people, most of whom, like Dupree, posed no real or perceived threat to them,” the board said.

Prosecutors say Treesh, 48, and the co-defendant robbed banks and businesses, committed sexual assaults, stole cars, committed carjackings and shot someone to death in a Michigan robbery during a spree that also took them to Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Treesh’s attorneys described him as a cocaine addict who was high during the robbery and is deeply sorry for what happened.

“Hindsight, regret and remorse cannot turn back the clock and cannot return Mr. Dupree’s life,” they said in a petition for clemency. “What Fred can do and has tried to do is to help prevent others from making the same mistakes he did” by teaching them to avoid drugs.

His lawyers also alleged Treesh’s rights were violated during a prolonged interrogation as he was coming down from a drug high, which contributed to his death sentence. They also say Treesh suffers from health problems, including a seizure disorder, that raise concerns Ohio’s lethal injection process would cause him suffering amounting to cruel and unusual punishment.

Prosecutors contend Treesh intentionally murdered Dupree and tried to kill others, including police officers in pursuit.

“Treesh has never taken responsibility for his actions,” Lake County Prosecutor Charles Coulson wrote. “Treesh still claims ‘the cocaine made him do it.’ ”

Coulson also noted that courts previously determined Treesh’s constitutional rights weren’t violated.

Treesh declined to be interviewed by the parole board.

The parole board cited Treesh’s refusal to be interviewed as evidence he has not grown or improved as a person in prison

Treesh’s prison behavior is indicative of “a self-indulgent, petulant and immature individual,” the board said.

He was never prosecuted for the crimes in the other states, according to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.

Ohio’s most recent execution was in November, when the state put to death Brett Hartman for the 1997 stabbing and dismemberment of an Akron woman.

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2013/03/ohio_executes_frederick_treesh.html

David Isaacs Teen Killer Murders Fathers Girlfriend

David Isaacs was seventeen years old from Ohio when he murdered his father’s live in girlfriend. According to court documents David Isaacs would stab to death Darlene Renner. David Isaacs would not give a reason why to the murder. The teen killer would be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole until 2037

David Isaacs 2023 Information

Number A738233

DOB 10/15/1998

Gender Male

Race White

Admission Date 09/15/2017

Institution North East Ohio Correctional Center

Status INCARCERATED

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The 18-year-old who stabbed to death his father’s girlfriend over a year ago has been told he’ll be sent to prison, likely for the rest of his life, next week.

David Isaacs, 18, pleaded guilty Tuesday to murdering Darlene Renner, 39, at his father’s mobile home in Midvale on March 17, 2016.

During the change-of-plea hearing, Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Judge Edward O’Farrell told Isaacs he’ll hand down a sentence of life in prison with parole eligibility after 20 years.

With the plea change, Isaacs avoids a jury trial that was scheduled to begin Sept. 26.

Isaacs is charged with aggravated murder, murder and two counts of tampering with evidence in connection to the murder. The sentencing hearing is scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday.

Then, Isaacs will receive a one-year prison term for each of the two tampering with evidence charges. Those two years will be served concurrently with the life sentence. The murder and aggravated murder charges were merged together for sentencing purposes. The maximum sentence Isaacs could’ve received was life in prison with no parole.

In May, Isaacs pleaded not guilty to the four-count indictment. He’s being represented by Tuscarawas County Assistant Public Defender Nicole Stephan, Katherine Sato of the Ohio Public Defender’s Office and attorney Jacob Will of Canton. Tuscarawas County Prosecutor Ryan Styer and Assistant Prosecutor Amanda Miller are representing the state of Ohio.

Isaacs was arrested on the day of the slaying and alleged to be delinquent by arson for barn fires that occurred in July 2016. Isaacs was 17 at the time of the killing he is accused of. That arson case has not been resolved in Tuscarawas County Juvenile Court.

The current indictment includes the same charges as the one handed up in July 2016.

In June 2016, Isaacs was bound over to the grand jury to be charged as an adult after a mandatory bind over from Juvenile Judge Linda A. Kate. His case was then assigned to O’Farrell.

In January, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that mandatory bindovers were unconstitutional and O’Farrell remanded the case back to juvenile court.

In April, Styer and Miller argued to Kate through an amenability hearing that Isaacs should be tried as an adult. The hearing was to determine how amenable to rehabilitation Isaacs would be in the juvenile prison system, if convicted.

On May 4, Kate ruled that Isaacs be tried as an adult, and his case once again was bound over to a grand jury that indicted him on the same charges as before.

Isaacs is being held in the Tuscarawas County Jail. As a juvenile, he was housed in the Multi-County Juvenile Attention Center. He was never released on bond since his arrest.

https://www.timesreporter.com/news/20170905/david-isaacs-pleads-guilty-will-be-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-next-week

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David Isaacs is currently incarcerated at the North East Ohio Correctional Center

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David Isaacs is serving a life sentence however he is eligible for parole in 2037

Devonte Brown Teen Killer Murders Brother And Sister

Devonte Brown was sixteen years old when a breakup led to him murdering a brother and a sister in Ohio. According to court documents Devonte Brown was upset that Joselyn Brown had broken up with him and the teen killer reacted by stabbing her and her fourteen year old brother to death. Devonte Brown would also attack the teen’s mother. Devonte Brown would be sentenced to life in prison without parole for the double murder however he would take his own life in 2021

Devonte Brown 2023 Information

Number A727400

DOB 01/28/1999

Gender Male

Race Black

Admission Date 07/28/2016

Institution Mansfield Correctional Institution

Status RELEASED – Death

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Devonte Brown, 17, a teen charged with killing his girlfriend and her brother, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

It was a difficult day for all involved, but will hopefully give two families a chance to move on.

Brown’s sentencing concludes a year-long nightmare for the family of Joselyn and Johnny Jones. Back in August of 2015, 16-year-old Joselyn and 14-year-old Johnny Jones were fatally stabbed in what prosecutors say was an act of rage after a teenage breakup.

On Thursday, the Honorable Judge Ian English heard from Joselyn and Johnny’s mother Josie Thomas, who was also attacked by Brown, but survived.

“Everything was taken from me in the matter of minutes, my kids, home, car, finances, and trust,” said Thomas.

Brown’s mother was also seen in the courtroom.

Brown, who was seen wiping tears from his face throughout the hearing, made a statement before learning his fate.

“I wish I would have understood how bad I would have hurt so may people, including myself,” said Brown.

The judge, however, wasn’t sympathetic towards the defendant. He said Johnny victimized Joselyn in the past, a reason for handing down the maximum sentence. It was a prayer answered for the victim’s family.

“This is a blessing right here, you know, I just said amen after he said that sentence. I think this is truly God working here,” said Thomas.

Brown’s attorney says the case is far from over, because his client will appeal due to a lot of discussion and a supreme court case that questions whether a teen should receive a life sentence.

https://www.wtol.com/article/text/news/teen-sentenced-to-life-without-parole-for-killing-girlfriend-her-brother/512-73ab3ca5-a4bf-4b5d-adcb-d7a5f2a347ed

Devonte Brown Death

A 22-year-old Mansfield Correctional Institution inmate’s death Saturday night is being investigated as an apparent suicide, JoEllen Smith, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, confirmed Monday.

Devonte Brown was admitted to the Ohio penal system on July 28, 2016, on charges of aggravated murder, attempted murder, rape, failure to comply and kidnapping.

Brown committed the crimes in Lucas County. He was sentenced to life in prison, according to the ODRC online offender search website.

Investigator Bob Ball with the Richland County Coroner’s Office said Brown’s body will be taken for autopsy as is state law.

Staff Lt. Craig S. Cvetan, public affairs commander with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, said the general offense report had not been uploaded and approved yet, but he would provide the report when it became available.

https://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/2021/02/08/manci-death-being-investigated-apparent-suicide/4436524001/

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James Worley Ohio Death Row

James Worley was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for the kidnapping and murder of a young woman. According to court documents James Worley would abduct Sierah Joughin and would murder her. James Worley would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Ohio Death Row Inmate List

James Worley 2021 Information

Number A743593

DOB 04/08/1959

Gender Male Race White

Admission Date 04/19/2018

Institution Chillicothe Correctional Institution

Status INCARCERATED

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The FBI along with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office began a search of the former property of James Worley, the man who was convicted of killing Sierah Joughin, using heavy excavation equipment.

Authorities were seen on Aug. 31 digging up a portion of the property which had been transferred to Sierah Joughin’s family following a civil settlement

A release sent by the Fulton County sheriff in regard to the search reads:

“The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office along with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is continuing to investigate matters involving James Worley. The FBI’s Evidence Response Team is on scene to assist in collection of any evidence if there is any located.The investigation into Mr. Worley continues and no further information can be discussed at this time.”

WTOL spoke with the family of Sierah Joughin. Sierah’s family said that Monday’s search was unrelated to her murder.

Joughin was abducted and killed after a bike ride in 2016. She was found in a cornfield near the Worley property a few days later. Joughin’s DNA was found on Worley’s motorcycle helmet and his barn.

Worley’s barn, located on the property, had a concealed room where investigators found evidence that Sierah had been held there following her abduction

A jury found Worley guilty on all 17 counts brought against him. He was subsequently sentenced to death.

Worley was to be executed on June 3, 2019, but a long appeals process has delayed his death date. As inmate #A743593, he resides at Chillicothe Correctional on death row

https://www.wtol.com/article/news/crime/fbi-searching-worley-property/512-daa5748f-75a0-46cc-8830-3b463e58890c