Kevin Keith will be executed unless we act today. 2 actions:

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Ohians, Please take action on this!!

email from Supporters of Kevin Keith:

Thank you for signing the petition to urge the Ohio Parole Board and Governor Ted Strickland to grant clemency to Kevin Keith, an innocent man facing execution. Because of you and thousands of people like you, we have surpassed our goal of 5,000 signatures. We are grateful.
With Mr. Keith’s clemency hearing just two weeks away, we need as many signatures as possible, especially from your friends in Ohio. Your continued support in these remaining weeks will show the Parole Board and the Governor that support for Mr. Keith is widespread and growing.

You can help by taking the following actions:

(for those who have not signed the petition, to sign it:
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/relief_urgently_needed_for_innocent_man_on_ohios_death_row )


1. Email two or more of your friends and ask them to read about the case and sign the petition at: http://criminaljustice.change.org/petitions/view/relief_urgently_needed_for_innocent_man_on_ohios_death_row

2. Post a link to the petition on your Facebook account. Ask all your Facebook friends to sign.

3. Tweet about the petition on your Twitter account and ask your followers to sign and retweet. Here’s a sample tweet: Help free an innocent man on #OH death row. Get info and sign the petition at http://tinyurl.com/2aut7c2 #Ohio PLS SIGN AND RT

We have a real chance at saving Kevin Keith’s life because people like you believe in justice and fairness and are willing to speak out. Thank you so much for your help!

Supporters of Kevin Keith

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email from Death Penalty Focus:

Save Kevin Keith: Innocence Matters

Target: Governor Ted Strickland and the Ohio Parole Board
Sponsored by: Death Penalty Focus
Ohio may execute an innocent man unless you take action!

Kevin Keith is scheduled to be executed on September 15th, despite a wide range of new evidence that suggests he is innocent. Keith, who has been on Ohio's death row for 16 years, was convicted on the basis of faulty eyewitness identification.

Thirteen years after he was convicted, Mr. Keith discovered that one of the State's supposed "witnesses" -- a hospital nurse who was critical to corroborating the legitimacy of the surviving victim's eyewitness identification -- does not actually exist. He has an alibi affirmed by four people and new evidence has emerged implicating another suspect.

No court has heard the full array of new evidence pointing to Keith's innocence. Take action today to stop Ohio from executing a man who very well may be innocent.


Sign a letter to governor:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-kevin-keith

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And PLEASE spread word!!

Thank you!

[Lady President]

1. Columbus Dispatch Feature Story

Kevin Keith was the front page story in the Columbus Dispatch today. Hopefully, it will draw more attention to his case and the death penalty in general.

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/08/08/copy/timeout-from-death.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

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2. thank you so much for posting that, Lady President!! i am sorry i

didn't see your post sooner and reply.

wow:

"It has circumstances that I find troubling," said Gov. Ted Strickland, who has the power to grant Keith clemency. "We are looking at that case very seriously."


yes yes yes, please, may it "draw more attention"!!!!

thank you so much!! that article is mind-blowing, isn't it?


peace and solidarity!

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3. and this, from the same news outlet! stories almost every day!

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/editorials/stories/2010/08/14/calls-for-comprehensive-review-are-numerous.html

wow. they seem to be getting it, don't they?

please please please please please.............


thank you for sending me looking in that direction, Lady President!!

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4. The one nice thing about the Dispatch

it may lean conservative, but it is entirely independent.

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5. interesting, realisticphish, thanks! isn't "independent" refreshing?

after all, how could there ever be sides taken about the possibility of executing an innocent man? but of course there are those who take the cutthroat side, but in this outlet's voice one sees THE DIFFERENCE in an independent press, ah?

thank you, again!


peace and solidarity