Posted on 05/31/2006 2:00:28 PM PDT by Thanatos
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out the death sentence of a man who strangled and stomped a 76-year-old man during a robbery, saying the killer’s chaotic childhood with abusive parents, along with other factors, outweighed the crime’s brutality.
The 4-3 opinion also noted that Troy Tenace, 44, expressed remorse when he confessed to police in 1994, and that if he receives the maximum sentence, he won’t be eligible for parole until age 96.
Any one factor alone would not have resulted in reversing the death sentence, but the combination of the three is enough to argue for prison over execution, the majority said.
The three dissenting justices said the brutality of the crime was inexcusable.
The justices were unanimous, however, in upholding Tenace’s conviction for robbing and killing Chester Kozlowski on Jan. 28, 1994, in his Toledo home. Tenace robbed Kozlowski because the older man paid him in cash earlier for chimney repairs. The man had been gagged and strangled, and had extensive facial injuries from being stomped with heavy boots.
The ruling sends the case back to Lucas County for resentencing.
Tenace’s mother and siblings had testified he was forced to watch the sexual abuse of his sister by his stepfather and was sexually abused himself by baby sitters, and that all three children were taught to steal and use drugs by age 10.
“Tenace was doomed from the start,” Justice Judith Lanzinger said in the majority opinion. “Both appellant’s mother and father were abusive, neglectful, and pernicious influences on their three children, who were schooled in crime from an early age.”
Got to get a gun to survive in Ohio!
The tyrants in black strike again! These judges don't live in the real world.
Your title is not the original title of the article. It's not even English.
In Covington Georgia last week a man intentional ran over two sisters and their three young children killing a two year old girl. In the days that followed the family of the killer was allowed copious airtime by the Atlanta broadcast media which they use to claim that Mr. Barnes (the killer) had suffered from depression. The liberal media will do anything to spare a mascot killer from punishment.
Ohio Court Reverses Death Penalty Sentence
You're supposed to use the real title, not your own.
Gee. The victim won't reach 96. And at taxpayer expense, either. Bet those judges just felt SO GOOOD about themselves!
"if he receives the maximum sentence, he won’t be eligible for parole until age 96."
My money is on 65.
The judges know that he won't be in jail until he's 96. At some point, some other liberal judge is going to say, "He's no longer a threat to society, and it's just costing us money to keep him here, so I'm letting him go."
The feminization of America continues unabated.
We cant all get our druthers, but If I did I would have this man committed to prison till he is 76, then stomp him to death.
"The justices were unanimous, however, in upholding Tenace’s conviction for robbing and killing Chester Kozlowski on Jan. 28, 1994, in his Toledo home. "
If they were upholding his conviction he must have been contesting it. So much then for the remorse he showed after the murder.
This is mighty handy when justifying theft from one party for the benefit of another but it's just as applicable to stomping a 76-year-old man to death. The murdered man here was either an oppressor himself or a symbol of oppression by this theory. Not a human being. Case closed.
Are you saying these judges work in the US Senate?
Whomever came up with that headline should be shot.
The person who posted this on FR came up with that headline. It's not the original (click on the link).
I see it has now been changed.
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