Motion filed to set Landrum's execution date (OH)

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Ross death row inmate loses last appeal
2:23 PM, Oct. 11, 2011

CHILLICOTHE — Ross County’s lone inmate on death row has lost his final appeal.

The Supreme Court of the United States on Oct. 3 denied 50-year-old Lawrence A. Landrum’s April petition for his case to be reviewed. After receiving word of the denial, Ross County Prosecutor Matt Schmidt said he filed a motion for Landrum’s execution date to be set. Schmidt said it likely will take two to three years before that would happen.

Landrum was convicted of aggravated murder and burglary in the Sept. 19, 1985, murder of 84-year-old Harold White Sr. at his apartment. White was found a day later when police received an anonymous tip. White had been bludgeoned, his throat cut and there was $80 in cash and 200 nerve pills missing from the apartment.

Landrum has argued during his numerous appeals that there were a number of errors during his initial trial and that he was unsatisfied with his lawyers. He also has claimed that his juvenile co-defendant in the case should have been given immunity because when he wasn’t, the 14-year-old invoked the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and didn’t testify to provide information Landrum felt was pertinent to his case ...

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